# 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:** 121
**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 29, 2022, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2402 "2022-12-29T00:54:18Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Twitter (which I notice is still up and running just fine), Well, maybe not. I just clicked on links in a Twitter email. The first one opened normally; the other links opened with a sign in banner at the bottom and when I tried I got a circle of doom. Hit refresh and ditto. Clicked the log out option, tried to log back in, and got a blank white box with more circle of doom. Went to the tab with the one correctly opened page, hit refresh, and voila! The sign in/log out banner popped up for that page too. Tried Googling Twitter for log in, used my proper email/password, and landed on an error page. Maybe it’s just me. Or maybe something broke and there’s nobody left 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 29, 2022, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2403 "2022-12-29T01:30:23Z")
Oops. Looks like [it’s not just me](https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/twitter-website-down-elon-musk-17682225.php?fbclid=IwAR1aictpNW4n3i1uJEgPgfVUV_wrEJXnhUOY6HQsZBUMlXAgFOjlETcWq84) (need to disable Adblock but then you can read it). That’s a bummer; there are a few people I follow on that platform and I’ll miss being able to read their tweets. ETA: Wow, click on the Downdetector link in that article – starting around 5:00 p.m. things began going seriously bad and the spike rise is incredible. ---
**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 29, 2022, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2404 "2022-12-29T01:35:29Z")
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAnnnnnnnnnnnd now it’s back, apparently working fine. For now… ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2405 "2022-12-29T01:50:26Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > I do think this has hurt Tesla, which was as much of a liberal lifestyle brand as any product I’m not sure I agree with this. The Tesla owners I know skew conservative, seeing it a bit as a fancy status symbol plaything. The survey I could find says Tesla owner do skew left, but not by much: 38% Democrat to 30% Republican, as reported here: > **[Tesla owners are more Republican than you'd think](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/02/03/cars/tesla-buyer-politics/index.html)** > > Elon Musk has trained his Twitter guns on top Democrats such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Now he's going after Joe Biden. I don’t at all think of the Tesla brand as some latte liberal Birkenstock “save the Earth” brand, but cool technology for people with money. It may be skewed by the Tesla owners I know, but the surveys suggest it’s not just my impression. ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2406 "2022-12-29T02:00:28Z")
…LOL. So this just happened. [https://i.ibb.co/ctzVsQr/Screenshot-2022-12-29-at-2-52-33-PM.png](https://i.ibb.co/ctzVsQr/Screenshot-2022-12-29-at-2-52-33-PM.png) It just logged me out and won’t let me log in again. :: sigh :: ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2407 "2022-12-29T02:04:07Z")
Somewhere in San Francisco Elmo is unplugging servers one at a time to try and figure out what each one does. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2408 "2022-12-29T02:16:43Z")
Clearly part of the 17D chess game Musk is playing. ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2409 "2022-12-29T02:24:53Z")
He should probably fire some more people. ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2410 "2022-12-29T02:30:27Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Twitter (which I notice is still up and running just fine) Er… [about](https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/twitter.com.html) [that](https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/)… ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2411 "2022-12-29T02:39:47Z")
Right now I can access the site on my phone but not sign in. #TwitterDown is currently the top trend and people are saying it’s inaccessible on desktop. Elmo’s most recent tweets are all about how Dr. Fauci invented covid. ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2412 "2022-12-29T02:47:17Z")
I just got an error message when I tried to log in, then when I tried again, I got in. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2413 "2022-12-29T02:50:18Z")
I just had no problems sending a tweet, but I’m not a regular user. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2414 "2022-12-29T02:50:32Z")
Don’t worry. I have on good authority from the Muskrats that Musk only trimmed away the bad employees, and only the high-quality superstars are left. And besides Musk is a genius. I’m sure he doesn’t need any real help to figure out the problem. He’s probably in the code right now fixing it. ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2415 "2022-12-29T02:56:26Z")
On an unrelated note, Elmo really doesn’t understand this whole pronouns thing he’s so mad about. > ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2416 "2022-12-29T02:57:49Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > I just had no problems sending a tweet, but I’m not a regular user. It let me log in eventually, but within 60 seconds it logged me out again. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2417 "2022-12-29T03:45:29Z")
Well, (a) whatever he is it’s not what the general norm of the population is, and (b) that tweet sure makes it sounds like he does not quite understand what “cis” means. ---
**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 29, 2022, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2418 "2022-12-29T03:47:23Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Somewhere in San Francisco Elmo is unplugging servers one at a time to try and figure out what each one does. …so I was forced into changing my password, which kicked me out of the Android App. So when I logged back into the Android App its treating me like its my “first time here” and helpfully walking me through the process on how the twitter interface works. Thanks Elon! ---
**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 29, 2022, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2419 "2022-12-29T06:34:08Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’m not sure I agree with this. The Tesla owners I know skew conservative, seeing it a bit as a fancy status symbol plaything. The survey I could find says Tesla owner do skew left, but not by much: 38% Democrat to 30% Republican, as reported here: I suspect it varies a LOT by where you are. In northern CA, driving a Tesla signals “I’m a righteous lefty tree-hugger.” Here is southern FL it signals: “I have fuck-you money and love the Rs’s tax cuts, plus the subsidy paid for by mere proles that I got for buying this rich person’s play toy. Subsidies paid from poor to rich: as it should be.” ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2420 "2022-12-29T06:44:34Z")
Here in China it signals the same about having money, and it’s a great way to save money on license fees and wait times for the license plate lottery. ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/2421 "2022-12-29T14:24:37Z")
Here in MA I only know two Tesla owners, and both are Romney Republicans…right, but not necessarily crazy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=120) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=122)