What is the data/trend there in light of the competition and what is the income potential from becoming a payments processor?
What data exactly are you looking for? A quick google search has lead me to info implying that 90% of twitters revenue comes from advertisements, and I'd argue that even the services that are the other 10% are based on selling some form of access to its common users, the ones displaced from this change.
"what is the income potential from becoming a payments processor?" How is that relevant? Twitter isn't one, Musks ambitions can be great or stupid, but it seems irrelevant, why would he need to destroy twitters current revenues to make this a reality? And if it is necessary, why wouldn't he wait until he was actually making that switch successfully to do it?
I think that the reason for this and other measure is to increase number of users.
How is making people unable to use a service going to increase the number of users of that service?
I would argue that hype is part of the job description for many of these multi national execs,
This isn't really important, but that can be the role such a person could take self evidently, but considering how many people he's turned against him, I'd question if he's even doing a good job at that, if that is his appointed role in his companies. It's only anecdotal but most people I know who have or want electric cars are the people who are most opposed to Elons brand of politics, and his coming out as a right wing sorta nutcase over the last few years has completed soured them on Teslas and made them get or move their considerations over to other brands. I'm sure he's gained fans in certain audiences, but do they buy electric cars at a rate high enough to offset the negative effects he is having? Serious question that, I have no idea, but I do find it doubtful.