# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 25, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442 "2022-04-25T22:50:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 102
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2021 "2022-12-14T17:58:52Z")
> [@wevets](#): > > There’s an interesting article in Vox that puts forward a theory of why Musk might want to fire 75% of the employees of Twitter and hope that everything still works: [How a 1941 book explains Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover - Vox](https://www.vox.com/23505311/elon-musk-twitter-managerial-woke-james-burnham) Or he’s trying to move to some Galt’s Gulch scenario where only the rich guy remains to control everything and all the workers are forced to suffer elsewhere without the rich guy’s majestic presence to bask in. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2022 "2022-12-14T18:37:26Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Ooh, calling him Elmo. The nickname came about initially from a typo. Someone was talking about “Elmo” and others asked what the fuck they were talking about, and then they clarified that it was a mistake. Then there were Elmo/Elon jokes. So now it’s a board inside joke. It’s not because people looked far and wide for the most scathing insult possible and came up with it. It was a funny accident that tickled people here. It started here: > [@Sam Stone believes Trump's tweets](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-stone-believes-trumps-tweets/922633/1383): > > I guess he’s found a new hero to believe uncritically. He believes Elmo’s tweets are profoundly accurate, even the sophomoric joke ones. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2023 "2022-12-14T18:42:07Z")
I don’t believe that was a typo. The name Elmo has been adopted by _many_, including twitter employees. > **[Twitter insiders are calling Elon Musk by a new nickname, Elmo. It's...](https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-insiders-users-calling-elon-musk-by-the-nickname-elmo-2022-11)** > > Elon Musk has owned Twitter for about three weeks and already his new employees are finding new ways to criticize him. First reference I see for it is from back in May. > ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2024 "2022-12-14T18:43:28Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I don’t believe that was a typo. The name Elmo has been adopted by _many_, including twitter employees. I thought it was, based on the apology. Maybe I misread the situation. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2025 "2022-12-14T18:45:30Z")
Elmo? El-no! ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2026 "2022-12-14T18:47:59Z")
My preferred EM nickname is “Space Karen”. ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2027 "2022-12-14T18:55:00Z")
> Or he’s trying to move to some Galt’s Gulch scenario where only the rich guy remains to control everything and all the workers are forced to suffer elsewhere without the rich guy’s majestic presence to bask in. I don’t think Musk being Randian and Burnhamian is mutually exclusive; there’s no particular reason he can’t be both. Probably not from directly reading either - Rand because Atlas Shrugged is 40 pages of plot stretched to 1000 with interminably bad dialogue, and Burnham because almost no one reads 80-year-old books, but he probably had some IDW type tweet it at him and thought ‘that fits with my lived experience as someone who had emeralds stuck in his pockets in his early 20s’ ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2028 "2022-12-14T19:03:08Z")
I genuinely believe this 1996 novel about a CEO who, using the latest in Libertarian-Liberation theology, builds a space industry because of her drive to save humanity, has been read by every major techbro in the US: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52563558881_2acb00e4a3_n.jpg "Firestar") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/52563558881/) ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2029 "2022-12-14T19:06:07Z")
Or at least they’ll tell everyone they’ve read it, right? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2030 "2022-12-14T21:00:07Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I thought it was, based on the apology. Maybe I misread the situation I was apologizing for using a reference that wasn’t as universally well know as I thought it was. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2031 "2022-12-14T23:06:38Z")
Elon said that he was proving he was in favor of free speech by not touching the account of the guy who is tracking his flights. Well now, the account is suspended. And you can’t link from Twitter to his Instagram page. Twitter is selling off tons of equipment from its San Francisco HQ. Twitter buildings all over the world are refusing to pay their rent. Elon said that people should vote for Republicans, but he didn’t vote. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2032 "2022-12-14T23:17:00Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Elon said that people should vote for Republicans, but he didn’t vote. If only more Republicans took that advice… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2033 "2022-12-14T23:53:00Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Elon said that he was proving he was in favor of free speech by not touching the account of the guy who is tracking his flights. Well now, the account is suspended. Back again, at least for the moment. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2034 "2022-12-14T23:56:34Z")
Nice Twitter account you have there. Be a shame if anything happened to it. Now that the threat is explicit, what’s the _quid_ to go with the _pro quo_? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2035 "2022-12-15T02:44:00Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Back again, at least for the moment. Banned again, along with a new rule that [absolutely definitely wasn’t created to retroactively justify it.](https://boingboing.net/2022/12/14/twitter-bans-live-reports-of-anyones-location-justifying-ban-on-elonjet-but-also-implicating-news-reporting-and-tweeting-about-your-lunch-salad.html) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2036 "2022-12-15T03:00:08Z")
Elonjet is now on Mastodon. > **[Elon Musk's Jet (@elonjet@mastodon.social)](https://mastodon.social/@elonjet)** > > 77 Posts, 5 Following, 69.6K Followers · Tracking Elon Musk's Private Jet (N628TS) with a bot using public ADS-B data > @ADSBExchange > , contact @JxckS > > for inquiries http://ElonJet.net ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2037 "2022-12-15T03:05:52Z")
…Twitter glitching for me way-more than it has since ever today: and the last three weeks have been pretty buggy. I can’t open the site in incognito mode at all. Videos not displaying correctly. Not being able to see large proportions of replies (this bug has been around for weeks.) And the reason why I wanted to check Twitter in incognito was because I had locked down my account, but I had just posted a reply to someone (who wasn’t following me) which _should_ have triggered a warning that “the person I was responding too wouldn’t be able to see what I wrote” but it didn’t, so I wanted to make sure that my account was still locked, but I couldn’t check. So I checked Twitter from a different browser: and my tweet wasn’t viewable, which is a good thing. But I kept scrolling down the page and Twitter v2 has a new feature called “more tweets” which suggests other tweets you might be interested in (based on who you follow and your likes, etc. When I’m logged in, the “more tweets” feature kinda works okay. But when you aren’t logged in? The first tweet I saw was a scantily clad anime girl, followed by a tweet from “shirts that go hard” with an image of a hat that said “hor NY”, and I didn’t want to scroll down any further. Just a lot of little things that aren’t quite right. And we all know that there aren’t enough staff behind the scenes to fix it. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2038 "2022-12-15T03:06:08Z")
> [@naita](#): > > Now back to bashing Elmo Mush! I prefer Muskmelon, but that’s not bad. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2039 "2022-12-15T03:14:34Z")
Seems fairly predictable. Surprised the genius didn’t see that coming. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2040 "2022-12-15T03:48:16Z")
Elmo has sold another 22 million Tesla shares this week. [https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/elon-musk-sells-tesla-shares-worth-358-billion/ar-AA15imLA](https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/elon-musk-sells-tesla-shares-worth-358-billion/ar-AA15imLA) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=101) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=103)