However, a source told Reuters that Silver Lake, a private equity firm among the shareholders of Twitter, would help fund a potential deal. The most important advantage of Twitter over Microsoft is that it does not do business in China. Therefore, there is no worry of any pressure from China waging a trade war with the US.
ByteDance, which has to sell TikTok's operations in this country until September 15, when it will be banned in the USA, needs to make a decision as soon as possible. Microsoft made a statement before Twitter kicked off and said they hoped to reach an agreement with ByteDance by mid-September.