If he did this deal correctly, he doesn’t need to make a lot of profit on this to make this work. If he makes a billion or 2 billion profit, it should be workable.
Dropping 75% of the useless woke “workforce” there will help attain some goals.
I think there is a very good chance he will make another pile of cash from this.
Not only will he bring people back and end the censorship of any view to the right of Vladimir Lenin, he will also add other services to Twitter like payments (directly competing with PayPal), games, etc. He plans to make it an all-in-one app as well as to allow content creators to get paid for creating things others want to see.
With Facebook dying and TikTok headed for either a ban or a forced divestment by the US government sooner or later, and with PayPal having pissed off and lost a huge chunk of their customers, Musk could swoop right and and scoop up a lot of market share.