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.