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The value of "X" has been repeatedly downgraded. It's estimated at around $15b by fidelity. They've demolished their own brand by renaming themselves and how you interact.
This is before you get into the whole "twitter has been loaded with debt from the purchase of twitter and so is even more unprofitable than it was before" part of the debacle.
It's easy to check a fact before putting your foot in your mouth.
One of my favorite aspects of Lemmy is that bootlickers are very easy to spot and don't have loads of other bootlickers to support them.
The owner of the website certainly has no reason to inflate their numbers...
Elon Musk is no George Washington.
It's been almost a year.