# 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:** 212
**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:** [April 11, 2023, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4224 "2023-04-11T14:22:35Z")
“heh heh heh heh. Get it? It’s like Hairy Balls! Heh heh heh heh” Has Musk’s brain been replaced by a 10 year olds? ---
**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:** [April 11, 2023, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4225 "2023-04-11T14:24:53Z")
“Replaced”? Has he ever shown he possessed a greater level of emotional maturity? ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4226 "2023-04-11T14:25:11Z")
Some odd news: Twitter (the company) no longer exists. It’s now X Corp. > **[Twitter Isn’t a Company Anymore](https://slate.com/technology/2023/04/twitter-inc-x-corp-elon-musk-x-nevada.html)** > > According to a new court filing, it’s been merged into a new entity called X Corp. Here’s what that could mean. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4227 "2023-04-11T14:35:59Z")
I, for one, am looking forward to the next batch of Musk is a (misunderstood) genius posts. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2023, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4228 "2023-04-11T14:50:33Z")
I imagine he’s going to tweet a picture of him mooning to everyone on twitter, with a note “Heh heh heh, I made you look at my bum!” It’s not even trolling. It’s just a mental breakdown. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4229 "2023-04-11T14:53:03Z")
He’s just an absolute idiot. I don’t care if he’s good at narrowly scoped nerd shit like shooting rockets or optimizing someone else’s electric car company. If you cannot restrain yourself from lighting $44 billion on fire just to make a few trolly jokes to please a bunch of basement-dwelling 4-chan chuds, then you’re not a misunderstood genius, you’re just a rich guy who happened to be good at one particular hobby. Furthermore, like most conservatives, he has the media literacy of a child. Outside of a brief list of who are his friends and foes, and a few narrow technical fields that relate to his business, he has absolutely no capacity to evaluate the reliability of new information. But most consequentially he thinks he’s the smartest guy in the world, so nobody can tell him when he’s stepped in it. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2023, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4230 "2023-04-11T16:15:34Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Some odd news: Twitter (the company) no longer exists. It’s now X Corp. We don’t owe all that rent and fines and stuff. That was Twitter. We’re X Corp now! The X stands for ‘unknown variable’! ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4231 "2023-04-11T16:45:46Z")
X has been Musk’s dream for a long time. Way back at PayPal, for which he was ousted because he was going to wreck the company. He wants X to be the everything app, which back in the PayPal days mainly meant an online bank. Of course, these days every bank is online sooooo… but hey this is a guy who reinvented the subway but worse and managed to convince a city to build it, so who knows? Personally, I hope he builds it, and it is, in fact, the harbinger of his (financial) doom. I don’t think he really understand the scrutiny he’ll be under as a bank. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4232 "2023-04-11T16:58:50Z")
Yeah, I have accounts at five different financial institutions, and _they’re all online and have been for years_ – even my clunky ol’ credit union which just last month finally converted my debit card to a chip card. ---
**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 11, 2023, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4233 "2023-04-11T18:48:31Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Did he really change his name to Harry Bolz? If he did it wasn’t for too long, I just checked and his regular name is on Twitter right now. [https://twitter.com/elonmusk](https://twitter.com/elonmusk) ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4234 "2023-04-11T19:08:48Z")
I don’t claim to know much about autism, but a friend of mine with an autistic son says he sees this behavior, and it really helps to have someone around to remind his son “you’re being weird again.” Per this friend, that helps his son to do a little reflection on whether what he’s saying is going to be well received by the audience. This guy’s view is that Musk just doesn’t have anyone around to ground him and remind him he’s “being weird again” ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4235 "2023-04-11T19:37:20Z")
Since _some_ people put lots of stock in what other people have to say about Musk, and in particular ex-employees. > **[Elon Musk's ex-lieutenant took a jab at the billionaire after he changed the...](https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-exec-slams-elon-musk-after-changed-twitter-titter-sign-2023-4)** > > Twitter's former head of ad sales Robin Wheeler slammed Elon Musk on Twitter after the billionaire changed the company's headquarter sign to "Titter." ---
**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:** [April 11, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4236 "2023-04-11T19:46:01Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > I don’t claim to know much about autism No need to appeal to autism. It’s sufficient merely to be wealthy and then it is not surprising how reticent the people around you become to contradicting you or offering even the slightest criticism. Especially in the cases where you are known to engage in acts of retaliation, including firing employees. That leaves family, and one of his own children has already publicly rebuked/renounced him to no effect. We once euphemistically called this sort of behavior ‘eccentricity’ when applied to the wealthy, so it is not exactly a new phenomenon ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4237 "2023-04-11T19:47:59Z")
For the record, I wasn’t defending him, nor making excuses. Just relaying an anecdote. I think he’s a tool. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2023, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4238 "2023-04-11T19:54:16Z")
An uncool fool of a tool. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4239 "2023-04-11T20:36:46Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > We’re X Corp now! The X stands for ‘unknown variable’! Doesn’t X stand for “Christ”? ---
**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 11, 2023, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4240 "2023-04-11T20:49:24Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Doesn’t X stand for “Christ”? “X Corp” translates to “Body of Christ”. Maybe Elon has been born again. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2023, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4241 "2023-04-11T20:53:42Z")
He Is Risen! ---
**Author:** ![EnglishGrey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/englishgrey/32/14111_2.png) [@EnglishGrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnglishGrey)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4242 "2023-04-11T21:01:02Z")
He is risible! ---
**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:** [April 11, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4243 "2023-04-11T21:20:47Z")
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