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Does this really matter? He fired something like tens of thousands of Twitter employees around the globe, he can keep the thing going as long as he likes. Advertisers are already crawling back.

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Twitter costs billions to run even if he fires all employees.

Also you have no source on your claim about advertisers. Elon and Linda are always reporting that advertisers are coming back. Such as when Visa spent 20 usd on ads few months ago.

How do you figure it costs billions to run? Sounds like a crazy number. Millions, maybe.

Let me guess. You can host it on a gaming laptop? I figured it by reading expenses from the public reports before Musk, subtracting costs for the fired employees etc. and he still can’t pay half his bills.

May we see it?

For starters twitter is settled with about 12 billion in expensive debt as part of the purchase which cost about a billion of year in interest alone [0].

[0] https://gizmodo.com/twitter-elon-musk-debt-interest-social-m...

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