It's a private company now, I don't believe any Twitter employees are getting any equity.

I saw it mentioned somewhere that he's planning to offer some kind of share bonus similar to SpaceX.

How did they handle shares? I thought they just paid them out (or were going to) but it's not a public company anymore. I mean I guess you could still have shares internally if they wanted to go public again...

Ignoring the fact that it's a private company now with no publicly traded shares, Twitter loses $4 million per day. Before the buyout, most of its revenue (> 90%) based on ads. But now advertisers are leaving the site en masse and there's no real plan to replace that lost revenue, let alone make the company profitable.

Also the leveraged buyout saddles twitter with debt. It coats $1B/yr to service (interest). I don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel, but I hear a train.