# 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:** 111
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2202 "2022-12-18T17:55:01Z")
OMG OMG OMG!!! They didn’t exclude FrankSocial! This could be just the break in the string of bad luck that Mike Lindell needs! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2203 "2022-12-18T17:58:10Z")
Too bad the Jeremy Renner app crashed so fast. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2204 "2022-12-18T18:48:38Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > [https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1604531265419591681?t=8XFFe7aIgJlD\_YzZBIfJ4w&s=19](https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1604531265419591681?t=8XFFe7aIgJlD_YzZBIfJ4w&s=19) It’s pretty funny that the way that post was obviously assembled was: Elmo wants to stop Mastodon promotion, composes tweet putting Mastodon and three others he has heard of in alphabetical order to make it less blatant that he’s just concerned about Mastodon. Minion points out that there are several others, Elon tells minion to add them to the tweet but the alphabetical order thing is forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2205 "2022-12-18T18:53:59Z")
Someone pointed out this tweet from June. > ---
**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 18, 2022, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2206 "2022-12-18T19:58:48Z")
🤔 > ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2207 "2022-12-18T20:53:06Z")
> [@Chazzo131](#): > > were they involved in shady stuff in twitter files? What “shady” stuff? So far I’ve only seen requests from the Biden campaign to take down the the Hunter dick pics and requests from the Trump administration to take down . . . well they haven’t actually, AFAIA, revealed those. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2208 "2022-12-18T20:59:06Z")
One good thing about all this – it makes the Muskies on Facebook easy to spot and block. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2209 "2022-12-18T21:22:52Z")
Like you’d ever find Elon Musk in a CVS. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2210 "2022-12-18T21:30:30Z")
He is rapidly becoming like Trump in that there is always a tweet where he contradicts himself. ---
**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 18, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2211 "2022-12-18T21:39:19Z")
I believe that the FBI and DOJ also requested the takedown of posts deliberately giving false information regarding the election itself, such as incorrect dates and fake polling locations. Apparently these actions constituted unacceptable governmental interference from the Biden Administration and Democrats, even though the Executive branch was in Republican hands at the time, and the directors of the FBI and DOJ at the time were hand-picked by Donald Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2212 "2022-12-18T21:42:06Z")
Bad actors and foreign governments should be allowed to spread deliberate lies designed to damage democratic elections BECAUSE FREEDOM! ---
**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 18, 2022, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2213 "2022-12-18T22:57:08Z")
…as I said in another thread: > [@Is it Legal? Elon Musk ultimatum. Do ‘extremely hardcore’ work or get out](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-legal-elon-musk-ultimatum-do-extremely-hardcore-work-or-get-out/975040/304): > > I’ve talked about the Banquet Bear Theory of Chaos before. **Things are predictably unpredictable.** We know Twitter is going to fail. Billions of debt. No business plan, no strategy, no pathway to profitability, no accountability, no guardrails on the man in charge who is currently cozying up to some of the most appalling people on Twitter and is publicly picking fights with the only people who could possibly save him. > > Twitter is almost certainly going to fail. That much is predictable. Exactly how that failure will look though? We don’t really know, because there are so many moving parts, the situation is extremely chaotic, things are changing hour-to-hour. But we can predict though is that it will be spectacular, and very-very-public. This is about as predictably unpredictable as you can get, LOL. And oh, so spectacular. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2214 "2022-12-18T23:06:39Z")
If Musk wants to be treated like a traditional publisher, Musk might get treated like a traditional publisher. > **['Are you just winging it?' Legal expert warns Elon Musk he may have just made...](https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-twitter-2658980703/)** > > Twitter CEO Elon Musk stirred more controversy on Sunday with a new policy that will end rival platforms' ability to give themselves "free promotion" on his social media site.Specifically, the Twitter Support account stated that "we will remove... ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2215 "2022-12-18T23:27:27Z")
> Well this should improve investor confidence. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2216 "2022-12-18T23:37:29Z")
Has Elmo created another poll where all the answers are actually the same answer? ---
**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 18, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2217 "2022-12-18T23:57:30Z")
“Yes” is currently at 57%. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2218 "2022-12-19T00:06:04Z")
He’ll be ticked if the bots that are supposed to generate enough “No” votes go offline. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2219 "2022-12-19T00:06:25Z")
I hope nobody interprets Musk’s poll to mean “I will hand over complete control of Twitter to someone you prefer, someone responsible.” This is almost certainly a troll and a stunt that ends in @catturd2 being named puppet CEO of Twitter for a few weeks. Laughs all around. Musk is not there to listen to your feedback or do your bidding. He’s there to entertain himself, and failing that, to annoy his detractors by acting stupid, petty, and irresponsible. His prime directive is to find out what people care about, and take a giant shit on it. Turning Twitter into a flyblown moonscape won’t bother him at all. It was probably 2nd runner-up on his list of preferred outcomes. He probably thought there was a 90% chance of remaking Twitter to suit his own preferences, and 10% chance he’d ruin it and lose all his money. He’d have preferred the former; he’s fine with the latter. He will lose, but do _not_ deceive yourself into expecting him to yield or relent. He’ll go out as dirty as he possibly can. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2220 "2022-12-19T00:16:29Z")
I’m not so sure. Musk is under a lot of pressure from Tesla investors right now. ---
**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 19, 2022, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2221 "2022-12-19T00:38:22Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Musk is under a lot of pressure from Tesla investors right now. Meanwhile, he’s in Qatar palling around with oil tycoons. > I hope those guys are OK with him sharing their assassination coordinates. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=110) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=112)