# 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:** 113
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2242 "2022-12-19T05:20:21Z")
What if it’s not the main purpose, but they’re mentioned? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2243 "2022-12-19T05:40:40Z")
I applaud Musk. He makes me feel like I’m not the biggest Shmuck on the planet. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2244 "2022-12-19T05:43:19Z")
Seems to be a moot point with the twits and their rule on social platforms policy having been disappeared with Elmo being made aware that prosecute would be criminally and civilly libel for _every single_ twit made on fauci’s platform, not just the ones prosecute personally made. You’d think being aware of the consequences of such an action would be something Twitter’s legal department would know. Oh wait, didn’t Elmo fire a lot of people recently? ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2245 "2022-12-19T07:45:45Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > If the vote is “yes”, Elmo will leave in a few months after appointing a duly sycophantic flunky as CEO. > > If the vote is “no”, Elmo will leave in a few months after appointing a duly sycophantic flunky as CEO. Maybe he can lure Devin Nunes away from Truth Social. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2246 "2022-12-19T07:54:44Z")
Funny how this is a French official. Your own officials have all been bought and paid for and wouldn’t dream of going after a major political donor for realsies. (See: Mueller, Garland, Smith) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2247 "2022-12-19T07:57:26Z")
To be fair, politically, it’s always easier to attack foreigners. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2248 "2022-12-19T07:58:01Z")
True. Also true that the French do not have any reservations to locking up former presidents. ---
**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 19, 2022, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2249 "2022-12-19T08:07:58Z")
Not just “have no reservations,” they actually take a kind of perverse glee in doing so. There’s lots of room to criticize French culture (it’s super, _super_ racist, for one), but in other areas they have a lot to teach the civilized world. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2250 "2022-12-19T08:16:47Z")
In their own way, the French have a distrust of government that puts Americans to shame. ---
**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, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2251 "2022-12-19T11:34:48Z")
The final result on his “should I step down” poll is 57.5% Yes. We’ll see what happens next. ---
**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 19, 2022, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2252 "2022-12-19T11:48:16Z")
Current scuttlebutt in some tech fora is that the CEO poll is actually motivated by pressure from mideast investors who control significant purse strings — that mollifying these people was the real reason for Musk’s trip to the World Cup, that they told him to calm down or get out, and the poll is just PR cover to make it look like Musk is being responsive to the public userbase instead of to the money people. I guess we’ll know if something significant changes in the immediate future. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2253 "2022-12-19T12:52:35Z")
Well, he DID say he’d abide by the results. Maybe this is his way of saving face and getting out of a bad situation. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2254 "2022-12-19T13:13:46Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > his way of saving face …with public repudiation. Us lowly peons will never grasp his 5D chess moves. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2255 "2022-12-19T13:27:01Z")
I’m a little surprised that the “yes” side prevailed, since the majority of voters were his devoted followers. I’m sure that a wider audience, say if the poll has been run on the official Twitter account instead of Elmo’s own account, would have voted for him to leave by a much wider margin. I’m also sure that Elmo is now going to do whatever it was that he had always planned to do anyway. And my bet is that he’s going to appoint someone – likely someone he already has lined up – who is both a sycophantic flunky who will do his bidding on major policy issues, but who is also competent to run a large social media business. ---
**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, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2256 "2022-12-19T13:38:27Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > I’m getting page does not exist on [https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy](https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy) It’s undergoing maintenance; come back after Squealer puts away the paint and ladder. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2257 "2022-12-19T13:51:19Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > You’d think being aware of the consequences of such an action would be something Twitter’s legal department would know. Oh wait, didn’t Elmo fire a lot of people recently? Yes. Including Twitter’s deputy general counsel. By tweet. Three weeks before Christmas. And a month before said lawyer was due to get a big bonus. ---
**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, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2258 "2022-12-19T13:59:15Z")
> [@JeffB](#): > > Maybe he can lure Devin Nunes away from Truth Social. His cow might do a better job. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2259 "2022-12-19T14:07:43Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > Us lowly peons will never grasp his 5D chess moves. ^^^^ 😜 ---
**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, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2260 "2022-12-19T18:13:42Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I’m a little surprised that the “yes” side prevailed, since the majority of voters were his devoted followers. I’m sure that a wider audience, say if the poll has been run on the official Twitter account instead of Elmo’s own account, would have voted for him to leave by a much wider margin. There’s no way to know exactly what the poll represents. Consider: - A lot of Musk’s followers are hate-followers - A lot of Musk’s followers are bots - The poll isn’t restricted to followers, it’s open to whoever happened to see the poll via a link or retweet or mutual like - We have no idea how Musk chose to manage bot participation in this poll, whether he successfully filtered out all automatic actors, or flooded it with his own. - We have no idea what data the polls are based on. Maybe it’s real, maybe Musk had someone code a predefined outcome that appeared to “update” in realtime. I do think one thing is certain: Musk’s chosen course of action will not be a consequence of the poll results. It’s the other way around. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2261 "2022-12-19T18:33:54Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > I do think one thing is certain: Musk’s chosen course of action will not be a consequence of the poll results. Definitely agree with that. The “poll” was a stupid stunt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=112) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=114)