To spell it out clearly: The numbers of users and ‘views’ of every tweet is the most important number twitter has. It drives the pricing of its advertising. Advertisers use the numbers twitter gives then to determine if they should invest in marketing on twitter.
Musk is proving twitter is lying about those numbers by a large margin. Advertisers could seek lawsuits and cut the price they are willing to pay if the numbers are shown to be, say, 100% inflated, meaning twitter has less than half the users they claim.
The SEC could also prosecute twitter for lying on their SEC forms as well.
Twitter could be delisted off the stock market for this practice of lying about their health.
I think this was the end game all along by Musk: Destroy twitter.
I think your post No. 13 is exactly right. Twitter management may be in serious trouble.