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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by DeathArrow on Sunday October 30, 2022 @03:17AM (#33391994)
And here comes Musk. If he manages to make Twitter profitable he deserves some credit.
Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by shapefrog on Sunday October 30, 2022 @04:04AM (#33392261)
Twitter gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2022 was $3.181B, a 11.24% increase year-over-year. Twitter annual gross profit for 2021 was $3.28B, a 39.58% increase from 2020.
Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by simonswords82 on Sunday October 30, 2022 @09:28AM (#33394331)
True but as with all tech companies at the moment Twitter is also going to feel the pinch and they don't have the business size to wear it as well as the others.
Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by shapefrog on Monday October 31, 2022 @06:11AM (#33403816)
"Only someone with the raw talent and vision of Elon can make twitter profitable" has effectively said by many here.

That twitter is already profitable either means a) the current team are on the same giga-genius level as Elon or b) people are talking absolute nonsense.

Twitter might be better able to survive the pinch - or would have before being lumped with a massive pile of debt. They have 2 costs; servers and staff and one revenue stream; advertising. Simple model and easy to balance the two sides of the equation.

Before the Musk buyout they paid $51mil to service the small amount of debt they had, post the takeover they will be paying ~$1bil to service the debts he has added to their balance sheet.

Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by lrvick on Sunday October 30, 2022 @08:03AM (#33393687)
There are plenty of ways I can think of to make Twitter profitable, but none of them are ethical. There is no good that will come from this.