Twitter's mMAUs (monthly Monetizable Active Users) stands at 450 million. If they pay $8 per month, that gives Elon $3.6B per month. It will take 13 months to make $44B - the purchase price QED. Elon Musk is a genius.
That is IF they pay, and don't just move for
Bluesky Social.
At this point it wouldn't surprise me if ton of people would left from it. I've seen so many official Finnish accounts pondering that they should they leave twitter without even having an alternative, that it have left be baffled.
If most key people would leave it, it would eventually die, as most of officials and firms saw that they woudn't NEED to be there.
And it would mean Elon had bought $44B worth of bots, trolls and fanbois. I admit that would be funny as hell.