This all feels like a big ruse by Elon to lay a big smackdown on Twitter, seems like a simple plan in retrospect:
1. Offer to buy Twitter, initiating a stock bump that will obligate them to sell.
2. As part of deal, perform audit on twitter, forcing them to publically air all their dirty laundry.
3. Profit??? Tough to guess his end goal, I'd say he saw Twitters constant expansion and bias of their censorship programs would eventually create conflict with him and his plans.
It's getting hard to think that he was that serious about buying twitter. Twitter's bias and number inflating are poorly kept secrets and I doubt Elon is overly surprised by anything being revealed. I did hear that he'd take on $1B penalty for backing out, but I can't say how it'd actually play out. Maybe smacking down Twitter is worth $1B to him?
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