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You're assuming Elon's goal is to actually run it as a broad social networking platform. What if his goal is to drive all the Liberals away and make it a safe space for racists and fascists? Then it makes more sense.
There's a reason why conservative "free speech" platforms never work:
Elon could totally float the company, but it'll be a massive money pit overtime. They are shedding users (over 10% since the takeover) and ad revenue, and once there's a viable alternative, there will likely be a much larger Exodus, similar to what happened to Myspace users moving to Facebook.
Could be. I don't know that he has such an aim, except that he runs it on whims which inevitably lead him there anyway, because that's who he is on the outset.
It would have been cheaper to just start his own, maybe under the X brand directly. Instead of killing twitter.
It probably is his goal, but throwing away the brand recognition of twitter does not make much sense for that either.