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This would be a laudable direction to take the company towards ...

... if he didn't start by putting $12.5 billions of debt on the balance sheet after the buyout.

Which means that Twitter has to pay $1 billion of interest each year which it didn't have to do before that hostile takeover.

How many people would need to buy Twitter Blue to offset the interest alone? ~~125 million users which is about a third of its whole active user base~~ 10 million which is about 3% of their active user base (I can't do maths, thanks supermatt, luckily I'm good looking and can program).



1bn / $8/m (excluding costs, etc) / 12 months = ~ 10m


Just to pay off the interest? Ouch ouch ouch




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