# 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:** 208
**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:** [April 7, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4144 "2023-04-07T22:49:21Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > It’s still all the news sources, plus a handful of journalists, all curated into one place for me. “Curated”? ---
**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:** [April 7, 2023, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4145 "2023-04-07T22:56:09Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > “Curated”? Well, when Elmo censors according to petty childish whims and regressive ideologies, and promotes nutjobs and Nazis, that’s a _kind_ of curating, innit? 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4146 "2023-04-07T23:20:07Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > And for those that don’t know, Bari Weiss is an extremely conservative “reporter” who with a massive axe to grind against the trans community. > > Anyone who thinks it’s just libs jumping ship is simply ignorant of reality. No, no, no! It’s only the libs who turned on Elmo and hate him now because he isn’t one of the tribe! Or of the body! Or something… also I’m not an Elmo fanboi. Sorry, I was channeling Sam Stone for a minute there. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2023, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4147 "2023-04-07T23:28:47Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > So, you are thinking that twitter is going to manage to stay afloat on advertising dollars from companies that don’t do any sort of real due diligence? They have many fine companies lining up to advertise on Twitter: > ---
**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:** [April 7, 2023, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4148 "2023-04-07T23:41:02Z")
Baxto, Fetto, Lobu, and Dolu? The Marx brothers are now peddling household junk on Twitter! ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4149 "2023-04-07T23:55:42Z")
If you misspeak the names while picking up the Necronomican, then it will summon an army of the dead. ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4150 "2023-04-08T04:56:37Z")
Just don’t try to buy toys from Lobu or Dolu ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4151 "2023-04-08T05:15:18Z")
For the hell of it, I tried Googling those company names, and couldn’t find any of the companies in the first few google results. I did however find out that ‘dolu’ is Turkish for ‘full’ and that Urban Dictionary defines [fetto](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fetto) as ‘any person who is both fat and ghetto.’ ---
**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:** [April 8, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4152 "2023-04-08T17:30:10Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Baxto, Fetto, Lobu, and Dolu? The Marx brothers are now peddling household junk on Twitter! I’m pretty sure those are the character names for the janitorial staff at the cantina from Star Wars. They don’t actually appear on screen, but they each have their own action figure and 400 page tie-in novel. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2023, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4153 "2023-04-08T17:37:58Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > They don’t actually appear on screen, but they each have their own action figure and 400 page tie-in novel. Also the Dark Horse graphic novel series _Mop Eisley_. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4154 "2023-04-08T18:54:33Z")
Is that the one about the janitor that tries to clean up that hive of scum and villainy? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4155 "2023-04-08T20:46:50Z")
[![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0b/74/ef/0b74efa110e4f60c5fedfb972e17c7c1.gif) ](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0b/74/ef/0b74efa110e4f60c5fedfb972e17c7c1.gif) ---
**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:** [April 8, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4156 "2023-04-08T22:30:44Z")
Elmo is once again backpedaling and has changed NPR’s label to “government funded”. > ---
**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:** [April 8, 2023, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4157 "2023-04-08T23:08:03Z")
What had he changed it to before? (I tried to scroll back and look but discourse kept having to reload chunks because I went back like 20 posts or something ridiculously small. Then I tried searching for NPR in this thread and discourse interpreted that to mean any word that contained NPR. Which appears a lot. eg: unprecedented. An utter failure by discourse compared to how it worked under vbulletin, where you could just use your browser’s native ctrl+f search and search backwards, reloading the previous page if it went back that far.) ---
**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:** [April 8, 2023, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4158 "2023-04-08T23:13:35Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > What had he changed it to before? “State-Affiliated Media.” ---
**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:** [April 8, 2023, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4159 "2023-04-08T23:33:31Z")
lol you can’t even search on Matt Taibbi’s (when looking for posts) anymore, i.e. from:@mtaibbi stopped working. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4160 "2023-04-09T00:01:36Z")
I’d be willing to place a bet that all these advertisers are scammers. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2023, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4161 "2023-04-09T00:02:43Z")
Elmo, of course, is lying, and claiming that Substack hasn’t been blocked and that Taibbi was secretly working for them all along as some kind of sinister plot against him. > This is what loyalty to a narcissist gets you. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4162 "2023-04-09T01:46:12Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > And for those that don’t know, Bari Weiss is an extremely conservative “reporter” As an extreme prescriptivist, I strenuously object to the notion that “extreme” and “conservative” can, in any legitimate sense, be applied simultaneously to the same subject. If you’d like to fix that, I’d suggest that the term “conservative” be jettisoned in favor a different descriptor. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4163 "2023-04-09T01:49:39Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Even though we’re in the Pit, I do want to point out that most businesspersons, even conservative ones, have a deep yearning for stability. Exactly. The preference for stability is almost a defining characteristic of what “conservative” means. Hence, my continual harping on the subject. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=207) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=209)