It's amazing that Musk’s word means absolutely nothing. He said during Q2 that the plant shutdowns would have no significant impact on deliveries. Boy was he wrong. And he does stuff like that all the time. That right there should disqualify someone from the office of CEO. A company needs a CEO, that when he speaks, the market will listen and take seriously. That’s not the case with Musk. Musk’s word means nothing and he’s now known as a clown.
For years Musk has been in golden hand cuffs. He had billions of dollars of Tesla stock but couldn’t sell any of it for fear of causing a stampede. I think the true aim of the whole Twitter purchase was just to give him cover to sell a significant portion of his Tesla stock before the price craters. Mission accomplished.
Whether he actually buys Twitter now or not is irrelevant. The goal all along was to give him a plausible excuse to sell billions of dollars of Tesla stock.
In fact, I actually think he’d prefer to keep his cash and not buy Twitter. Although, I doubt the Twitter board is going to let him off the hook very easily. Musk knew about the Twitter bots all along. As I wrote just a few days ago, his account has among the most of anyone in the world.