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.
Isn't this statement even makes the whole userbase declining its value? Sure if they pay it all, but I'm pretty sure most of the users in twitter don't even bother with virtual badge in their profile. Basically everyone can just have it with $8 to get it, it's not even make you special where everyone can get it or I can say it's a Pay 2 Win scheme for just half-good benefit it offers.