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[โ€“] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are currently ~366 million Twitter users.

If Musk paid each person $100 to start using "X" instead, he'd spend $36.6 billion, leaving him with $7.4 billion to actually build the rest of the website and infrastructure.

Yup, he's stupid.

He could also pay his rent and other bills.