Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44bn five months ago. He says its value now is…

Elon Musk claimed in an internal email that Twitter's current worth is $20 billion, less than half the $44 billion he bought it for five months ago.

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The compensation plan values the platform at $20 billion, slightly more than Snapchat's parent company Snap or Pinterest, both of which are publicly traded, unlike Twitter.

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Twitter's value in the internal email, stating that the platform faced such grave financial difficulties that at one point it was on the verge of bankruptcy.

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Twitter's value in the internal email, stating that the platform faced such grave financial difficulties that at one point it was on the verge of bankruptcy.

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