His money is now on the line: He has sunk $44B and has to get it back somehow. It is no longer a cute thought experiment, but cold, harsh reality.

You might be right, though I do wonder how much Elon and Zuckerberg look at risks and think "doesn't matter I'll still be insanely wealthy".

He has to deal with actual issues if he's bought Twitter, I agree, but I don't know if the financial incentive is so key, even with borrowed money.

He did't sink 44b, more like 33b.

Thanks for the correction; this changes everything.

Don't see it happening in his lifetime...unless he changes it radically and just bought it for the user base, which honestly is probably closer to the truth.

Even if he fired everyone, and got free hosting, it would take nearly a decade to get that back. But that's obviously not realistic.

As your namesake understood intimately, we can’t know it’s in someone’s heart. And as a reasonable modern observer should understand, Elon makes frequent course adjustments. Not only don’t we know how it’s going to work out, my guess is he doesn’t know either at the moment.

Because as an outsider, he doesn't like any restriction of his speech, but as an insider, he doesn't like speech critical of him.

He didn't Twitter profitability required partners that would demand more.

I think his goal is to figure out how to do this and keep it sane and keep the advertisers and grow the membership. It will take a long time to get there, and Twitter will have to look very different to get there.

well he did just put the company he bought $13bn more into debt, good to take a breather

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-twitter-takeover-see...

It may be time to consider the possibility that you have been reading far too much in to the inane witterings of one of the world's most prolific compulsive liars and fantasists.