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.
He is not only a genius, but also has the fastest dissemination speed, the largest influence, the largest audience in the world, the most instructive, timeliness, and even the most easily spread false media --- TEITTER.