he paid 41B for the user base
not for infrastructure, as twitter did not have its own servers - BTW, the dependency on Big Tech clouds is another leverage the deep state has over X
not for the code - most of the code was censorship, "trending", data mining and focused ads calculations.
not for the employees - he dismissed most of them.
From the beginning Musk declared to have big ambitions - not just tweets, a broad app with everything from blogs to shopping.
Did he believe the user base was the key to get quicker results?
He would have to create an open source + open protocol business model... Possible?
At the $$ scale Elon Musk would care about? What about other clients competing for users?
Heck, I am not even sure how many of the usual proprietary social networks are really profitable without selling user data and deep state subsides (there are very dark tales)
his stated goal or a goal was to preserve freespeech
the user base is not the biggest but influential
likely elon owning twitter will shift election, which may have been his real goal in which case there likely wasnt another choice
something like nostr will be far better for freespeech and probably an 'everything' app so if he is serious he will adopt similar, being the innovative engineer he is he would have to atleast explore p2p etc to cut server costs
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