# 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:** 160
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3184 "2023-02-12T20:11:45Z")
I wonder how Tesla feels about their CEO promoting a competitor auto company. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3185 "2023-02-13T02:46:37Z")
[![](https://i.redd.it/y7ugi1x5quha1.jpg) ](https://i.redd.it/y7ugi1x5quha1.jpg) I’m so sorry. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3186 "2023-02-13T18:54:25Z")
Elmo sat with Rupert Murdoch in his box at the Super Bowl yesterday. Two miserable excuses for human beings. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3187 "2023-02-13T20:07:58Z")
Given that Tesla stock has pretty much doubled from its January low while rival carmakers like Rivian haven’t, I’m going to guess that they are okay with it. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3188 "2023-02-13T20:17:46Z")
I’m not at the point where I’m putting much stock into your guesses. Edit: especially given your cherry-picking of numbers. Yeah, Tesla has rebounded since _January_. But since Musk acquired Twitter on October 7, Tesla stock has gone from $223 to $194, with a low of $109. So I’m not convinced the shareholders are like, “woohoo double in stock price ftw!” Edit2: And even that’s too generous. Musk publicly and legally committed to purchasing Twitter on October 4, so we should look at the stock price before he made it clear how his attention would be divided. On the day before–October 3–Tesla stock was at $242. Tesla’s stock has dropped about 20% since he embarked on this boondoggle. And you guess the stock owners are okay with it. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3189 "2023-02-13T20:40:28Z")
I don’t think there can be any doubt that TSLA is an upward channel. I was wrong that it was likely a dead cat bounce. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3190 "2023-02-14T03:50:21Z")
Yeah, the engineers definitely didn’t go in and tweak things so that Elon specifically would get more visibility. That’s definitely not the reason > **[Twitter is just showing everyone all of Elon’s tweets now](https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/13/23598514/twitter-algorithm-elon-musk-tweets)** > > Your For You feed might look a little different. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2023, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3191 "2023-02-14T04:26:29Z")
Lol, my newest tweet is over an hour old, I have had to manually load tweets for 4, 5 days now, Twitter is feeling more and more like the bad SDMB vBulletin days of yore… ---
**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:** [February 14, 2023, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3192 "2023-02-14T04:40:28Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > Yeah, the engineers definitely didn’t go in and tweak things so that Elon specifically would get more visibility. That’s definitely not the reason …I have Elon blocked: but I’m SO tempted to unblock him for a bit so I can see just how bad it is. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3193 "2023-02-14T04:50:15Z")
You may not need to. At some point Elmo is going to realize that some folks aren’t following him, perhaps even the outrage of **blocking** him, and he’ll fire assorted unrelated engineers and command the rest to make it impossible to block or unfollow him. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2023, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3194 "2023-02-14T07:40:14Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Lol, my newest tweet is over an hour old, I have had to manually load tweets for 4, 5 days now, Twitter is feeling more and more like the bad SDMB vBulletin days of yore… Except now it costs you significantly more each month. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2023, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3195 "2023-02-14T08:03:20Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > Yeah, the engineers definitely didn’t go in and tweak things so that Elon specifically would get more visibility. That’s definitely not the reason About two hours ago he posted a slightly sexually disturbing meme that seems to confirm it. I have my feed set to “following“, but when I flipped over briefly to “for you“, there were all his tweets. What a dink. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2023, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3196 "2023-02-14T08:28:56Z")
For a culturally iconic entrepreneurial titan, confidently astride the worlds of technology and commerce, he really is an insecure and pathetically needy little turd. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2023, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3197 "2023-02-14T09:29:45Z")
Would Andrew Carnegie care how many Twitter followers he had? Would J.P. Morgan? John D. Rockefeller? I doubt 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:** [February 14, 2023, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3198 "2023-02-14T09:44:30Z")
Edison probably would’ve, though. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2023, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3199 "2023-02-14T13:33:57Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > Yeah, the engineers definitely didn’t go in and tweak things so that Elon specifically would get more visibility. That’s definitely not the reason > > [Twitter is just showing everyone all of Elon Musk’s tweets now - The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/13/23598514/twitter-algorithm-elon-musk-tweets) Someone seems to have called this shot a couple months ago 🙂 : > [@Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition/963442/1765): > > Yeah. It’s hardly unprecedented for a fat-cat to own a mouthpiece. Part of my point was that Twitter is bigger, with a larger reach, than the e.g. Washington Times ever thought about being. Another point was that understanding Musk’s approach to Twitter “management” makes a lot more sense as a personal megaphone than it does as a profit-making business. > [@Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition/963442/3094): > > Once you understand it’s his personal megaphone for his personal interests and whims, it will all make sense. Until then, it’s just batshit insane. Wait a minute; those two are the same thing. :forehead-smack: Not that I was the first or only to say so. Nor is it a very hard thing to figure out. Karnak predicts the next move is Elon’s tweets become unblockable. The next step is the twitter app becomes un-uninstallable. etc. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3200 "2023-02-14T15:14:10Z")
Clearly you don’t understand “Agile” software development. 🤣 Don’t you know that every time Twitter forks up it is because it is “Agile”!?! I mean come on, it is obvious. Also, whenever Twitter does something right, it is because Musk’s kept only the best developers. Again, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3201 "2023-02-14T15:46:20Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Edison probably would’ve, though. So would Tesla. And Nicolai would spend all day fuming that Thomas was somehow shadowbanning him. And he’d have been right. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3202 "2023-02-14T15:59:48Z")
And then trying the same thing (ineptly) to Marconi as an upstart ---
**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:** [February 14, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3203 "2023-02-14T17:58:04Z")
Muskrats and the opposition are currently falling for this bit of satire which has spread far from from the source, typically without attribution. > **[Baldwin Calls Musk 'A Scumbag' On 'The View'](https://dunning-kruger-times.com/baldwin-vs-musk/)** > > What an ungracious person he is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=159) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=161)