A 20% bump with zero risk? Yes please!

Even if you think Twitter stock will go up 20% next year, you'd want to take this offer. If you think it will go up 50% next year, you might still take the offer because of the risk:reward ratio.

Sure, you take that 20% bump and invest it in Google. Then you get 20% plus the tech equity recovery.

Rookie mistake: the fact that a stock was once higher is no indication whatsoever that is "worth" that much. That was then, now is now.

I think last year was some serious bubbliciousness, not the true value of Twitter and all the other tech companies (and shitcoins and NFTs and basically everything else people were throwing money at)

That's your typical small shareholder in a nutshell.

Elon said he'd keep as many shareholders as he's legally allowed to.

The big reason it tanked was privacy regulations from Apple/Android. That's not changing to favor Twitter and effectively took away one of their biggest revenue streams. That's a big deal for a perennially non-profitable company.