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>has tanked its income

Income doesn't matter if you're not profitable.

>All the debt you mention? He saddled them with that.

No, Twitter was already in debt. The alternative was letting it die, which mind you I don't think would have been a bad idea, but if Musk's goal is to keep it alive then the huge amounts of debt would certainly do that.

>Unfortunately he did that at the expense of site stability & reliability.

The site did not have the efficiency or importance to warrant the number of employees it had.



> No, Twitter was already in debt.

Twitter had around 5.5 billion in debt prior to the buyout. Elon added approximately 13 billion to that.

No rational person would look at his actions and claim they "[made] a lot of financial sense".




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