# 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:** 285
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5686 "2023-07-20T16:34:30Z")
Deep Thoughts … By Jack Handey ---
**Author:** ![Chelonaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Chelonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chelonaut)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5687 "2023-07-20T16:36:33Z")
Bragging about how strong you like your coffee is sooo last year. According to his Muskiness, you’re the hippest and coolest if you brag about your farts. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5688 "2023-07-20T16:48:00Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > That could imply that the more you sit around and do nothing, the smaller your penis is, and the more you move around and visit new distant locations, the larger it is. One of the cool things about special relativity is that the four-dimensional volume of an object is invariant. Length contraction and time dilution are mechanisms to maintain the invariance. In layman’s terms: swinging your dick around doesn’t make it any bigger. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5689 "2023-07-20T17:45:57Z")
See, this is what’s wrong with the SDMB - someone posts a perfectly innocent dick joke, and it inevitably devolves into a discussion of mathematics and physics. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5690 "2023-07-21T01:12:44Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > Deep Thoughts … > > By Jack Handey Can’t believe you missed the opportunity to say: > Deep Thoughts… > > by Jerk Handy > [@Pleonast](#): > > time dilution 😃 (Don’t you mean _dilation_?) > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > See, this is what’s wrong with the SDMB - someone posts a perfectly innocent dick joke, and it inevitably devolves into a discussion of mathematics and physics. What other subjects should we discuss when it comes to measuring such a thing? ---
**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 21, 2023, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5691 "2023-07-21T02:28:29Z")
The Elon Musk Twitter business model: > > > Elon Musk @elonmusk > > ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5692 "2023-07-21T03:12:35Z")
Agile organic? ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5693 "2023-07-21T20:25:00Z")
In shocking news, Musk is angry with the new Snow White. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5694 "2023-07-21T20:32:42Z")
I’m more and more convinced that rich people should care about rich people stuff like, I dunno, yacht racing, and leave the rest of us alone. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5695 "2023-07-21T22:08:12Z")
Space Exploitation is the new America’s Cup. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5696 "2023-07-22T04:59:19Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [x.com](https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1678926998553411586) For anyone who would vomit at the thought of watching Tucker Carlson and Adrew Tate jerking each other off for two and a half hours while fellating Vladimar Putin (hell, I’d vomit at the thought of just watching Tucker), NFKRZ put out a good video on it the other day; he’s a Russian currently living in Georgia since shortly after the invasion of Ukraine who among other things has covered Tate, and conservative idiots in the West like Tucker and Tate who praise Russia as an anti-woke, anti-SJW, anti-LGBTQ paradise. > **[Andrew Tate does Russian Propaganda on Tucker Carlson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I33trWfwK8%2F)** > > SUPPORT THE CHANNEL and become a YouTube member here:https://www.youtube.com/@roman\_nfkrz/joinI've already reacted to Andrew Tate and his awful opinions on R... Lovely friends whose Twit Casts you try to boost and who you dole out ad revenue to there, Elmo. ---
**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 23, 2023, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5697 "2023-07-23T08:13:54Z")
ChatGPT, how do I destroy what little remains of my brand recognition? > **[Elon Musk says Twitter logo to change, birds to be gradually abandoned | CNN...](https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/23/business/elon-musk-twitter-revamp-intl-hnk/index.html)** > > Elon Musk tweeted on his official account on Sunday that Twitter would be changing its logo to an “X” and that all the birds will be disappearing from the platform. ---
**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 23, 2023, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5698 "2023-07-23T08:38:02Z")
Well, obviously the brand needs to be swept away and rebuilt from the ground up, because it’s been irreversibly tainted by (checks notes) everything that Musk has done to it over the last several months. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5699 "2023-07-23T10:42:42Z")
So, instead of Twitter it’ll just be… Twit? And in honor of Elmer Fudd they’ll post tweats instead of tweets. ---
**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 23, 2023, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5700 "2023-07-23T11:20:27Z")
Sounds like Musk is doing a Ship of Theseus-type experiment. ---
**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 23, 2023, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5701 "2023-07-23T11:22:00Z")
Bluesky should rebrand itself Twitter when that’s all completed. ---
**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 23, 2023, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5702 "2023-07-23T11:35:56Z")
Meanwhile… Good news: many of my soccer posts are getting a lot of likes lately! Bad news: they are almost all from OnlyFans accounts. I suppose that’s cheaper for them than getting bluechecks and paying for ads? ---
**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 23, 2023, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5703 "2023-07-23T11:54:40Z")
I think I’m noticing a pattern. When does Elon announce that he’s changing his name to Xlon? ---
**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 23, 2023, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5704 "2023-07-23T11:58:38Z")
Elon MuX, surely? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5705 "2023-07-23T12:08:15Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Good news: many of my soccer posts are getting a lot of likes lately! > Bad news: they are almost all from OnlyFans accounts. I’m not on Twitter, but the same thing has been happening lately with my Reddit “followers”. I suspect that most of the ones I’ve had for years have also not been legitimate, but in the past few months I’ve gotten a lot more “followers” than I had gotten in the previous 4 years combined, and they always have an avatar which, while not explicit, implies they are OF. I guess OF accounts must be getting desperate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=284) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=286)