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Comment by abirch | Hacker News Reader

My understanding is that Twitters revenue was

  5   billion in 2021
  4.4 billion in 2022 (When Elon made bid and took over company)
  3.4 billion in 2023
  2.6 billion in 2024
  2.9 billion in 2025

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What's the operational cost now? 10K to 2K employees. 30 Engineers.

It doesn’t cost much to keep the lights on. As far as I know, X post-acquisition is not investing in innovation anymore.

Musk might have been right that shifting to KTLO mode was a good idea, but the company would still be better off if someone other than him had bought it and done the same thing.

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