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Pretty sure SA (arabia) and many other oppressive regimes consider it a steal [wink]

Value is what others are willing to pay. Ever since twitter is not publicly traded, it is not for sale. Any "estimations" by third parties are to be taken with more than a grain of salt.

yeah he won the election with twitter power. how do you value that??

No, that was tribalism.

no that was oligarchy and the erosion of democracy

tribalism is having two parties and prentending they care about people. spoiler: they don't

Pretty sure this is outdated news.

Musk destroyed 80% of Twitter's value, but the ROI was great for his personal brand (like it or not).

And that's what buying it was really about.

I agree to some extent, but that’s a completely different point than I made.

The point I made is that firing 80% of the workforce was not showing other CEOs that that is such a value generating move (as the person above me implied).