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>financially struggling prior to Elon

It wasn't. It's been profitable every quarter except 2 since late 2017.

Musk chose to load Twitter with massive debt when he bought it which is why it's now financially struggling after the buy out. That's not due to Twitter, that's due to Musk.

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A lot of public companies are managed in such a way that an LBO is basically financially infeasible. They do this intentionally.

Musk's LBO of Twitter should not be expected to be going well.

Are you sure about that? Twitter's net loss in 2020 and 2021 were $1.1b and $221m.

In 2020 Twitter had one negative quarter because they performed a $1+b tax write off and the pandemic just started. In other words it's purely a paper loss. And in 2021 I believe they got fined by some government for something.

And you don't quote net profit on 2018 and 2019

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