Then why buy Twitter for $44B to show the world how bad of a business leader you are or how bad you are at leading or inspiring a tech team?

Why not just use that $44B to build X.com from scratch?

Who will trust Elon to build a reliable platform, i.e. use X.com for their finances or any other crucial services X is planning to offer.

He thinks you can run this platform with a skeleton crew. I wouldn't trust that platform at all.

If it’s so irrelevant, why did he buy it for $44 billion?

Why didn’t he take $44 billion and do a startup instead?

He was forced to buy it due to its own inflated ego and stupidity. He tried everything he could to exit the agreement, but failed and had to buy the company at an inflated price.

> If it’s so irrelevant, why did he buy it for $44 billion?

He mistaked his like of Twitter for everyones likes of Twitter, and he has no impulse control leading him to sign an iron clad contract.

>If it’s so irrelevant, why did he buy it for $44 billion?

Stupid is as stupid does

i mean, he tried pretty hard not to pay that amount

Sure, but only days after publicly demanding to buy the company and signing an ironclad contract stating that he would. ::Shrug::