# 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:** 197
**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:** [March 16, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3924 "2023-03-16T20:36:56Z")
Allow me: > [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > I don’t really care. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3925 "2023-03-17T09:52:11Z")
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**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:** [March 17, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3926 "2023-03-17T13:59:06Z")
I mentioned this before but I have been told that if I do not remove 2 factor authorization from my Twitter account, my account will be closed. Well, I have been trying to remove a 2 factor authorization from Twitter for the past, oh, month, and every time I do it I get a message “an error has occurred. Please try again later.” If this is common, the next week or the week after, expect a massive drop in Twitter users and engagement. Agile! ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3927 "2023-03-17T14:03:25Z")
Agile user retention! ---
**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:** [March 17, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3928 "2023-03-17T14:38:15Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > Agile user retention! Twitter: You must do _this_ or your account will be closed! User: Ok, I’ll close my account! Fuck twitter! Twit: In order to close your account, you must do _this_ first. User: But I can’t do _this_, I keep getting an error message, Twit: Then your account will be closed! ---
**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:** [March 17, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3929 "2023-03-17T14:55:30Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Well, I have been trying to remove a 2 factor authorization from Twitter for the past, oh, month, and every time I do it I get a message “an error has occurred. Please try again later.” “We apologize for the inconvenience. The people responsible for the error message have been sacked.” (On week later) “We apologize for the continuing outages. The people responsible for sacking the people who made the error message have been sacked.” ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3930 "2023-03-17T17:33:51Z")
Does that mean Twitter is being run by “Ralph” The Wonder Llama? ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3931 "2023-03-17T17:36:53Z")
Møøsk. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3932 "2023-03-17T17:55:40Z")
“Mynd you, møøsk bites Kan be pretti nasti” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3933 "2023-03-17T17:58:22Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Twitter: You must do _this_ or your account will be closed! > User: Ok, I’ll close my account! Fuck twitter! > Twit: In order to close your account, you must do _this_ first. > User: But I can’t do _this_, I keep getting an error message, > Twit: Then your account will be closed! So even Schrödinger has a Twitter account. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2023, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3934 "2023-03-17T18:43:47Z")
Better not be that Catturd account! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.E](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.e/32/8932_2.png) [@Mr.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.E)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3935 "2023-03-18T01:54:07Z")
The Financial Times [reports that](https://www.ft.com/content/703c3894-3adc-45f1-b280-1a75c4085d60) Twitter’s cost cutting is leaving them open to major lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny. A senior staffer, who was recently laid off, said in reference to existing contracts with landlords and vendors that “Elon would always say ‘Let them sue’, it was a constant refrain.” > Pablo Mendoza, a managing director at Dubai-based Vy Capital, which provided $700m to the $44bn takeover, has been working along with Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sunil Kantaria to assess what to do with existing vendors… When telling vendors that the company does not plan on paying them, Mendoza has often resorted to pleading with them that his job is on the line… > > Nevertheless, the intense cuts – and refusal to immediately pay multiple bills – has raised the spectre that Twitter will be hit with belated costs, legal challenges or regulatory scrutiny. > > “It’s smoke and mirrors,” one former senior staffer said. “[Musk] is doing all this deferring of eventual costs – so he can do the victory lap.” > ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3936 "2023-03-18T02:16:47Z")
Wasn’t there another businessman who was infamous for not paying people and letting them sue so they would settle for a partial payment, if any at all? He got into politics I think, but left disgraced after committing numerous crimes including an attempt coup. … I wonder when Musk will attempt a coup? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3937 "2023-03-18T02:31:02Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > I wonder when Musk will attempt a coup? That’s how he got Twitter, ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3938 "2023-03-18T03:27:24Z")
> [@Mr.E](#): > > and regulatory scrutiny Which he and his allies will declare to be “weaponization of the regulators” for political persecution. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3939 "2023-03-18T04:07:13Z")
Agile Witch Hunt! ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3940 "2023-03-18T11:04:53Z")
🤣 That’s so funny perhaps you are becoming no longer a mere mortal? ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3941 "2023-03-18T11:18:12Z")
Woe is me, I think I am becoming a god. > **[Vespasian | Death](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespasian#Death)** > > In his ninth consulship Vespasian had a slight illness in Campania and, returning at once to Rome, he left for Aquae Cutiliae and the country around Reate, where he spent every summer; however, his illness worsened and he developed severe diarrhea. > With the feeling of death overwhelming him on his deathbed, he incited: "Vae, puto deus fio." ("Dear me, I think I'm becoming a god"). Then, according to Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars: ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3942 "2023-03-18T11:20:23Z")
I know that sadly it annoys Sam that we keep calling things Agile [whatever]. I wish he could find the humor in it, because it really is quite funny. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3943 "2023-03-18T12:32:40Z")
He just has an agile sense of humor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=196) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=198)