Twitter ‘trending to break-even’ claims Elon Musk after bankruptcy threat

Billionaire who took over social network last year says last three months were ‘extremely tough’

Elon Musk gets into a car after leaving the Phillip Burton Federal Building on Friday in San Francisco, California. The following day he was found not liable in a securities fraud case over a tweet that said he had lined up funding to take electric car company Tesla private. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty
Elon Musk gets into a car after leaving the Phillip Burton Federal Building on Friday in San Francisco, California. The following day he was found not liable in a securities fraud case over a tweet that said he had lined up funding to take electric car company Tesla private. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty
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