# 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:** 269
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5366 "2023-07-01T01:12:24Z")
I enjoy a little Pillage now and then. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2023, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5367 "2023-07-01T01:13:57Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > I know that’s the reason he gave, but it might have nothing to do with data performance. It could simply be an attempt to get more people to sign up. I don’t see why both can’t be true. Servers suck, but he has a win-win by forcing people to make accounts as he reduces traffic. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5368 "2023-07-01T07:32:20Z")
If life pisses down on you bottle it and sell it as lemonade. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2023, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5369 "2023-07-01T10:43:59Z")
When I click on the above Twitter link to Elmo’s announcement – I am not logged in to Twitter and never will be as I have no account and never will – I get neither any content nor an invitation to sign up. What I get is the message “Something went wrong. Try reloading.” And when I reload I get “Something went wrong. Try reloading.” And when I follow the instruction and reload again I get “Something went wrong. Try reloading.” Agile software quality! Accomplished, no doubt, by Elmo’s crack team of all 1 software developers. There may only be 1 of him, but man, is he agile! ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5370 "2023-07-01T11:53:35Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > If life pisses down on you bottle it and sell it as lemonade. No, you sell it as vitamins. > **[Trump Vitamins Were Fortified With B.S.](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-vitamins-were-fortified-with-bs)** > > You give the Donald your urine and a stack of money? That’s what he wanted, in exchange for a customized vitamin regimen that a Harvard doctor deems a ‘scam.’ Yet another DJT grift for the cultists. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2023, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5371 "2023-07-01T12:18:58Z")
lol now I keep getting the error “rate limit exceeded”. I’ve been officially upgraded to being an API! (This is using their own app, not a third-party platform) ---
**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:** [July 1, 2023, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5372 "2023-07-01T12:24:20Z")
Kinda makes sense. You don’t need an API to scrape a website, it just is easier for both parties. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5373 "2023-07-01T12:31:36Z")
I wonder if that just killed every third-party app this morning. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5374 "2023-07-01T14:01:57Z")
Apparently, there are now rate limits for scrolling. I cannot confirm as I don’t have a Twitter account. I think that the not paying the bills is starting to have an effect. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5375 "2023-07-01T15:33:19Z")
It’s been down for me ever since I woke up this morning. No search, no new tweets, just the most agile of silences… ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5376 "2023-07-01T16:01:54Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > Apparently, there are now rate limits for scrolling This precedes Musk. I’ve gotten the rate limit message when scrolling through very long things. Rarely. No opinion on if it’s worse now, but the top trending search is currently “rate limited” something, so I guess it is. > [@JohnT](#): > > It’s been down for me ever since I woke up this morning. No search, no new tweets, just the most agile of silences… It’s fine for me, but I’m logged in. I couldn’t figure out how to log out to try that side of things ---
**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:** [July 1, 2023, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5377 "2023-07-01T18:40:06Z")
> Agile things fall apart, agile center cannot hold. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5378 "2023-07-01T18:57:49Z")
Elmo’s micromanaging at Twitter is absolutely hilarious. The fact that so much of what he’s doing is so stupid or so incompetently implemented is almost beside the point. The real hilarity is that someone of his supposed business stature, as the owner of several major leading-edge businesses where important strategic decisions have to be made all the time, is doing low-level bullshit stuff like setting “read limits” to different categories of Twitter accounts. It’s a vivid illustration of his pathetic mindset and insecurities. The most important thing to him is not to manage his businesses, but to wield his power in the Twitter community, and show the everyday Twitter users who’s boss. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5379 "2023-07-01T19:24:13Z")
Ya have to like the admission that the reading of people’s Tweets is not an important part of Twitter’s business model. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5380 "2023-07-01T19:39:40Z")
Could be related: [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fz-VjGrWIAEVIxj?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fz-VjGrWIAEVIxj?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5381 "2023-07-01T19:41:04Z")
Poor Elmo, first they were pillaging his data, now they’re scraping it. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5382 "2023-07-01T19:48:15Z")
So, twitter is now running on an old Pentium 2 computer in Elmo’s basement? ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5383 "2023-07-01T20:11:17Z")
Hillary’s server or Hunter’s laptop would be an upgrade. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5384 "2023-07-01T20:19:32Z")
And now it doesn’t work. Twitter is now perfect - I can’t get to it at all, which is probably good for me ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5385 "2023-07-01T20:23:25Z")
Still fine for me. The “For You” section is still full of crapola, but the site seems to work. 🤷‍♂️ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=268) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=270)