Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price

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Fidelity has cut its estimate of X's value by 79% since Musk's purchase | TechCrunch
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"Fidelity is currently valuing X at about $9.4 billion"

I found this funny.

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its worth comes from being able to influence world politics. Does he seem like someone who cares or needs money?

True, but that power is also diminished greatly as more and more regular users abandon the site. No eyes on the propaganda makes it worth a lot less.

Yeah I’m sure I’m not the norm but I’m actually shocked when I see companies advertising their talent’s twitter accounts on tv broadcasts. I truly can’t believe that site is still mainstream after everything that’s happened.

Idk then I look over and see trump as a presidential candidate and ugh… I guess I’m just still not comfortable/accepting of how far off the rails things have gone 🙁

Twitter currently has $1.5 billion/year deficit which is a lot, even for Musk, to bankroll.

that brightens my day a little to hear

Source? Where is that money going?

Interest on loans, payroll, cloud infrastructure e.g. AWS

Those are mostly operating costs, offset by revenue, but are they actually losing 1.5 billion dollars a year? I mean, I hope so, but are they really?

The natural language dataset is worth a lot. That's why they're and Reddit made the sites harder to use/scrape.

Does he seem like someone who cares or needs money?

He got a massive load to buy Twitter, so yeah, he does.