Twitter may now be worth one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social media platform just seven months ago.
has reduced the market value of its equity stake in Twitter for a third time, now putting it at $6.55 million. That's down from the nearly $20 million the Fidelity fund valued its stake at in October.
Financial services provider Fidelity Investments is privately held, not public, but is required by theto regularly disclose its holdings. Because Twitter is a private company now called X Holdings Corp., information about its finances can't be verified. Musk took control of Twitter in October, after a protracted legal battle and months of uncertainty. The CEO of Tesla, who also owns SpaceX, bought Twitter for $44 billion.
The billionaire financed the purchase with funds including loans from a group of banks. Musk has said the $44 billion price tag for Twitter was too high but that the company had great potential.By April Musk was telling the BBC that running Twitter has been " quite painful " but that the social media company is now roughly breaking even after he acquired it late last year.
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