# 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:** 161
**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, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3204 "2023-02-14T18:34:09Z")
Lol, I’m confused. Tesla is Musk in these analogies, right? A guy with a lot of fanboys who overstate the man’s (limited) accomplishments? 😇 ---
**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, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3205 "2023-02-14T18:52:36Z")
I think so. Except Tesla was actually personally brilliant. But, and this may be the relevant part, was also a terrible businessman and at times a crackpot. And, yes, lots of fanboys who overstate his (still impressive) accomplishments. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3206 "2023-02-14T19:13:38Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > 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. > [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > I’m not at the point where I’m putting much stock into your guesses. I see what you did there. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3207 "2023-02-14T19:26:35Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I have my feed set to “following“, but when I flipped over briefly to “for you“, there were all his tweets. What a dink. Just checked, and I’m still getting no Muskity tweets in either feed, just my usual follows, thank goodness. ETA: This is on a laptop; maybe it’s different on a smartphone or tablet. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2023, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3208 "2023-02-14T19:55:54Z")
I don’t use Twitter much, but I keep getting a floating blue notification at the bottom that a user I’ve never heard of has been muted. There’s a button on the notification that I can click on to ‘undo.’ This button doesn’t change anything… ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3209 "2023-02-14T20:25:50Z")
I’m definitely getting a “Bananas” vibe from Elmo [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ukr3Y3unFhg/hqdefault.jpg "Underwear Must Be Worn On The Outside") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukr3Y3unFhg) ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3210 "2023-02-14T20:29:02Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Muskrats and the opposition are currently falling for this bit of satire which has spread far from from the source, typically without attributio How am I just hearing about the Dunning-Kruger times now? ---
**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, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3211 "2023-02-14T21:01:25Z")
I only heard about them while fact-checking the (unattributed, of course) story which popped up in my Facebook feed today. ---
**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, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3212 "2023-02-14T21:21:42Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Tesla is Musk in these analogies, right? A guy with a lot of fanboys who overstate the man’s (limited) accomplishments? Well, in my analogy, Edison is a bastard that steals other’s ideas and tells everyone they are his own, and tries to silence anyone that says different, and inflates his own reputation. So, both of them are Musk. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3213 "2023-02-15T01:27:34Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > Clearly you don’t understand “Agile” software development. 🤣 So Agile! > At 2:36 on Monday morning, James Musk sent an urgent message to Twitter engineers. > “We are debugging an issue with engagement across the platform,” wrote Musk, a cousin of the Twitter CEO, tagging “[at]here” in Slack to ensure that anyone online would see it. “Any people who can make dashboards and write software please can you help solve this problem. This is high urgency. If you are willing to help out please thumbs up this post.” > When bleary-eyed engineers began to log on to their laptops, the nature of the emergency became clear: Elon Musk’s tweet about the Super Bowl got less engagement than President Joe Biden’s. > Biden’s tweet, in which he said he would be supporting his wife in rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles, [generated nearly 29 million impressions](https://substack.com/redirect/44c12dd6-ed8d-4fdc-a17b-e351285c826a?j=eyJ1IjoiYnNoaCJ9.9NLgrkaduogLDfbj3KeabNh2uJVcEJVtd6FCS3GM7cA). Musk, who also tweeted his support for the Eagles, [generated a little more than 9.1 million impressions](https://substack.com/redirect/b5245311-1653-4447-9fbc-45745fb6db8d?j=eyJ1IjoiYnNoaCJ9.9NLgrkaduogLDfbj3KeabNh2uJVcEJVtd6FCS3GM7cA) before deleting the tweet in apparent frustration. > **[Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first](https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system)** > > After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3214 "2023-02-15T01:49:00Z")
See? There is absolutely no chance that creature is going to allow anyone to upstage him on his own platform. He is the main character, and we’re all just NPCs who have to do whatever it takes to make his game work the way he wants it to. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3215 "2023-02-15T02:55:30Z")
I’ve blocked him, so I rarely see his stuff. For the first time on any message board, I’ve begun to block anyone who supports Elon or Putin or Trump. It’s just not worth the aggravation and there is no reasoning with them anyway. ---
**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 15, 2023, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3216 "2023-02-15T03:06:07Z")
nm, wrong thread ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3217 "2023-02-15T03:06:16Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I’ve begun to block anyone who supports Elon or Putin or Trump. Hey, **not \_** , can you see me? I’m jumping as high as I can, waving pennants (UW-Madison and UW-Seattle for that attention-getting red and purple thing) . . . I figure if you can, it means I’m on the right side of history. ---
**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 15, 2023, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3218 "2023-02-15T05:21:57Z")
This site is more broken by the day. IDGAF about Tesla’s stock price, there’s so much capital in the world that I’m not too sure if equity valuations mean anything anymore. And while I respect SpaceX and what it does/implies, I have zero faith that it is immune to the managerial foibles which is destroying Twitter and leaving Tesla exposed to a raft of regulatory and legal issues. When you get down to it, I have every expectation that… if it gets this far… a group of SpaceX tourists will die screaming as the oxygen escapes from the ship because of a design error which came from his chaotic management style. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3219 "2023-02-15T11:44:54Z")
I see you digs. I’ve never blocked anyone on the dope, yet! But on twitter, the trolls are so bad that I just decided to block them. They’re really not worth it. They sing the praises of fascists in the most stupid ways and it makes my head hurt. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2023, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3220 "2023-02-15T13:03:57Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > a group of SpaceX tourists will die screaming as the oxygen escapes from the ship because of a design error which came from his chaotic management style. Agile breathing. ---
**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 15, 2023, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3221 "2023-02-15T14:30:24Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > For the first time on any message board, I’ve begun to block anyone who supports Elon or Putin or Trump. It’s just not worth the aggravation and there is no reasoning with them anyway. > [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > on twitter, the trolls are so bad that I just decided to block them. They’re really not worth it. They sing the praises of fascists in the most stupid ways and it makes my head hurt. Same for me, on Facebook. Profile pic shows someone with MAGA gear? _plonk_ Profile pic takes an obvious dig at Biden? _plonk_ Muskrat praising him when he’s not the subject of a thread? _plonk_ Etc. etc. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3222 "2023-02-16T10:20:44Z")
Oh, so you mean it was all about his ego? > **[Elon Musk reportedly forced Twitter algorithm to boost his tweets after Super...](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/15/elon-musk-changes-twitter-algorithm-super-bowl-slump-report)** > > A tweet from Joe Biden garnered triple the impressions than Musk’s game time post, sending Twitter engineers scrambling to boost their boss It all makes sense now. He believes you can buy love, wit, sense of humor, hapiness and popularity. I find it hilarious that nobody dares to contradict him. ---
**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 16, 2023, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3223 "2023-02-16T10:50:04Z")
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