# 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:** 282
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5626 "2023-07-15T02:32:23Z")
Didn’t he get it for a bargain? So, buying one of the “easily worst-managed big tech companies” that was in “overall net loss territory” for cut rates is brilliant…right? Wait…are you saying he got forced into paying super high prices for this shit-show of a company? EVEN MORE BRILLIANT!!! ---
**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:** [July 15, 2023, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5627 "2023-07-15T02:33:14Z")
Yes! Matched only by the brilliance with which he has managed his brilliant bargain since then! ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5628 "2023-07-15T02:39:47Z")
I’m sure a certain someone will come along to justify the brilliance behind that move. ---
**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 15, 2023, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5629 "2023-07-15T05:32:53Z")
He bought it at a share price of $54.20. Get it? **420**! THE WEED NUMBER! LOL ISN’T HE SUCH A CLEVER AND NAUGHTY LITTLE BOY ---
**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 15, 2023, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5630 "2023-07-15T06:34:51Z")
Looks like Elmo forgot to give someone a piece of the pie. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1CQ815WIAEoFJ3?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1CQ815WIAEoFJ3?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**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 15, 2023, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5631 "2023-07-15T08:42:55Z")
I just saw “French Revolution” trending and clicked on it, forgetting that today is Bastille Day, to see what the fuss was about. Apparently today’s alt-right Twitter discourse is all about how the Ancien Regime was _good actually_ because they were defending the Church and the Nation against godless Commies, and the Revolution is the cause of everything bad that’s happened in the last 230 years. I’m half inclined to start screaming at them that the only problems caused by the French Revolution are because **Robespierre didn’t go far enough**. ---
**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 15, 2023, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5632 "2023-07-15T08:55:05Z")
Such ahistorical nonsense . . . Marat was a Maoist. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5633 "2023-07-15T12:08:57Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > So…super smart time to buy? Or…super stupid time to buy? > [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Depends a lot on the price paid, amirite? Outsiders opinion on Musk in this situation: [He chose poorly](https://youtu.be/Ubw5N8iVDHI?t=3) ---
**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:** [July 15, 2023, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5634 "2023-07-15T17:36:35Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’m half inclined to start screaming at them that the only problems caused by the French Revolution are because **Robespierre didn’t go far enough**. To be fair the guy had a pretty good head on his shoulders for the vast majority of his life. ---
**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 15, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5635 "2023-07-15T19:11:15Z")
> Who could have predicted this?! ---
**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 15, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5636 "2023-07-15T19:20:19Z")
And yet he’s doling out tens of thousands to Matt Walsh and Andrew Tate to get them to keep tweeting. If Elmo hadn’t fired all the lawyers, one might have pointed out that in the inevitable bankruptcy hearing things like this are going to be called “Exhibit A”. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5637 "2023-07-16T11:44:57Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > It’s also why his layoffs at Twitter kicked off a general round of layoffs in Silicon Valley. Everyone knew they were needed, but were scared to make the massive layoffs required after years of bloat. So Musk just went and did it, and the sky didn’t fall. That gave everyone else the kick they needed to follow suit. [I pointed out two months ago](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition/963442/4861) how your assertiions about this are revising history, including your own posting history, to boost your claims of Musk’s prescience and influence: > [@Kimstu](#): > > > [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > > > after Musk did his layoffs other tech companies followed suit and laid off huge numbers of employees. > > Huh, six months ago [you were presenting this as a simultaneous general trend in the tech industry,](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-legal-elon-musk-ultimatum-do-extremely-hardcore-work-or-get-out/975040/108) not as some kind of Twitter-led management revolution. > > > [@Sam\_Stone on November 18](#): > > > > If I were a $200,000-$300,000 Twitter employee, I would be very worried about being able to find an equivalent job. Silicon Valley is currently laying off employees like crazy, and it’s going to get worse. Twitter is not an exception in this regard > > But now that you want to rhetorically boost your pitch for Musk’s claims to brilliance, suddenly the notion of large-scale IT layoffs last fall was all Musk’s idea, and other Silicon Valley tech companies merely “followed suit” in his wake. Uh-huh. ---
**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 16, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5638 "2023-07-16T15:35:01Z")
> So now, verified users can all follow each other and interact with each other to generate money. If only there were a crude but analogistically accurate phrase to describe such closed-group mutual interactions. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5639 "2023-07-16T16:01:42Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > If only there were a crude but analogistically accurate phrase to describe such closed-group mutual interactions. “Circular Human Centipede”? ---
**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 16, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5640 "2023-07-16T16:44:37Z")
“ring-shaped spasm?” ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5641 "2023-07-16T17:05:59Z")
Circle of Jerks? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5642 "2023-07-16T17:06:58Z")
Hyperloop? ---
**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 16, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5643 "2023-07-16T17:11:04Z")
Hahaha we have an unexpected winner! ---
**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 16, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5644 "2023-07-16T18:09:37Z")
> ---
**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:** [July 16, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5645 "2023-07-16T19:52:18Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > If only there were a crude but analogistically accurate phrase to describe such closed-group mutual interactions. Let me teach you some South African: _trosfok_ (/trɔs:fɔk/). Yeah, exact same meaning. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=281) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=283)