>>45869216Okay so I'll walk you through these numbers
When you Google "how many people are subscribed to Twitter blue" the first result says 300,000, so you take 8 x 300,000, this gives you 2.4 million.
You take that number and you multiply it by 12 to account for how much yearly revenue that is, that's where you get 28.8 million.
Google and apple take a 30% cut out of playstore/app store purchases which twitter blue is.
This means that a good chunk of those subscribers pay 30% to their app store
And everything you make is of course, subject to taxes. If it's regionally priced this means they're making even less off of every purchase since it takes a lot more money to make up the same price and you often have to offer regional discounts because of that.
So even if we claim that musk has cut down on business expenses by an astronomical 50% since its previous owners and that still leaves us with a whopping 750 million dollars in operating costs alone.
Now you might say to yourself "well that's not so bad!" now keep in mind that he's on the hook for several billion in loans and even if he wasn't there's a 40% revenue drop since his take over which means he's still making way less than he paid for off of it since twitter was only ever worth 4.5 billion
