Twitter is clearly purging bots as we are seeing be reported on so many accounts.
Twitters revenue and valuations - like other social media companies is based on users. What if it comes to light that Twitter is 90% liberal bull horn bots?
Would their valuation be anything near $44B? Maybe Twitter is currently deleting the fakeness of itself to hand it over to Musk and covering their tracks, that is why people are disappearing and it is not 'known' to Musk. Does he continue to buy a giant social media bot farm or does he bail?
One possible scenario (just for fun) Twitter might get pillaged through due diligence, internal panic continues to spread, employees start jumping ship before, the actual number of real user disclosure was inflated and/or decreases after lefties cancel their accounts and bots destruct, or a shit ton of illegal activity is uncovered. Due diligence team finds the aforementioned, or some bad source code, etc., and Elon pulls out of the deal. Fries the bird. Could return later with diff deal, picking up BirdCo in fire sale.
Elon is a master troll. This would be the most epic trolling we may ever witness. Plant the seed (e.g. buyout) to restore free speech. Company then purges itself of all of its known corruption to hand it over to Musk. During said purge it exposes all that is behind the curtain and Musk walks away from the deal.
He accomplishes the goals that he wanted for free - e.g. purge of bots and woke think. Without having to buy the company and do the work himself.
And the cherry on top is that everything Musk wants by that time is already in motion as Truth Social.
Or he goes ahead with it but at a drastically reduced price without the “artificial” engagement numbers Twitter has been reporting.
In other words he is buying a company that has xxx,xxx,xxx numbers when it actually has xxx numbers.
They have been padding the books with bots.
This brings me back to my theory. Elon first tweeted indicating he wanted to buy Twitter on Dec 21st 2017, the same day Trump signed the EO for dealing with assets of those involved in crimes against Humanity.
Elon also has been saying how he owns nothing except Tesla stocks and lives like a poor guy.
So if he is being forced to use his "wealth" to acquire Twitter, which if you follow his vision, is a public utility and not a profit making machine a.k.a not worth 46 billion, it makes perfect sense that he is being forced to sacrifice his wealth.
Once all the fake stuff is gone, and its not funded by the intel agencies, and cant sell user data etc, it will probably be the biggest "philanthropic" investment ever.
Musk will make something out of nothing if he has too. He is a very smart and intelligent man. There is a reason why he bought Twitter other than just 'free speech' and we will all soon find out.