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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by kaba0 on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:42AM (#33702442)
And if he doesn’t, it might effect tesla very negatively (he used his tesla shares as collateral)
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by minhazm on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:27AM (#33702715)
> he used his tesla shares as collateral

No he did not. It was initially proposed but there's no margin loan against his TSLA holdings in the final deal. For the debt that Twitter took on in the buyout the collateral is the company itself. There's zero connection to Tesla in the actual financing.

https://www.cnbctv18.com/business/who-is-funding-elon-musk-i...

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