# 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:** 297
**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 29, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5926 "2023-07-29T19:37:58Z")
> > > > > > Elon Musk @elonmusk ---
**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 29, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5927 "2023-07-29T19:46:20Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VNOyI9V2RfE/hqdefault.jpg "ALL HAIL DUKE") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNOyI9V2RfE) ---
**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 29, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5928 "2023-07-29T19:46:35Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > If apps require two letters, I wonder why Musk did not simply rename Twitter XXX There’s a better solution that fits Elmo’s _modus operandi_. AAPL currently has a market cap of just over $3 trillion. I’m sure that Elmo, exercising his typical financial genius, could offer them $6 trillion and convince some of his Saudi buddies to chip in. Then he could appoint himself CEO, fire everyone, and remove the two-letter minimum. Mission accomplished! As a bonus, he could rebrand Apple as “X” and ensure the company’s continued growth by issuing a new line of iPhones (henceforth, “Xphones”) which, in a brilliant adoption of simplicity, have no screen and their only ringtone is a fart noise, just like the elegant option on his Teslas. True genius knows no bounds. ---
**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 29, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5929 "2023-07-29T20:16:29Z")
> **[‘Stop calling it Twitter’ says guy who deadnames his own child](https://chaser.com.au/general-news/stop-calling-it-twitter-says-guy-who-deadnames-his-own-child/)** > > 'Why won't you just accept X for who it is?' ---
**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 29, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5930 "2023-07-29T20:27:27Z")
I see that the sign-in page still says “Sign in to Twitter” and not “Sign in to X”. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5931 "2023-07-29T20:40:05Z")
If this were a movie, that thing would fall on the crazed CEO while he was ranting outside the doors and drive him into the pavement like a tent peg, forming a cross on his impromptu grave. ---
**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 29, 2023, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5932 "2023-07-29T21:04:54Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > [https://twitter.com/RightWingCope/status/1685343480581672960](https://twitter.com/RightWingCope/status/1685343480581672960) Elon Musk is the ultimate neighbor from hell. ---
**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 29, 2023, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5933 "2023-07-29T21:25:42Z")
> Note that the rooftop garden is now brown and dead. A fitting metaphor for Twitter under Elmo’s “leadership”. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5934 "2023-07-29T21:46:03Z")
What are the odds he took out the appropriate permit before doing that? ---
**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 29, 2023, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5935 "2023-07-29T22:43:45Z")
Zero would be my guess. It’s a historic building and I can’t imagine the city approving that monstrosity even if it weren’t clearly a threat to public safety. ---
**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 29, 2023, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5936 "2023-07-29T22:46:23Z")
It could be a hazard to aircraft and passing ships: > ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5937 "2023-07-29T22:51:17Z")
I’m not supporting that at all, but how does one, “…cause an epilepsy”? I do know what was meant, but the wording is unfortunate. ---
**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 29, 2023, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5938 "2023-07-29T22:53:14Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/AYURxfaTdpY/maxresdefault.jpg "Bender Remember Me - S3E17 A Pharaoh to Remember") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYURxfaTdpY) ---
**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 29, 2023, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5939 "2023-07-29T23:03:09Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > I’m not supporting that at all, but how does one, “…cause an epilepsy”? Maybe just half of one, or a third of one? ---
**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 30, 2023, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5940 "2023-07-30T01:03:07Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > It could be a hazard to aircraft and passing ships: Well, then, they’ll just have to demolish it… [https://64.media.tumblr.com/4bda9e5cf2f98ce0da124a001ae53c82/tumblr\_nnxs98zD1o1qhk04bo1\_500.gif](https://64.media.tumblr.com/4bda9e5cf2f98ce0da124a001ae53c82/tumblr_nnxs98zD1o1qhk04bo1_500.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:** [July 30, 2023, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5941 "2023-07-30T05:28:16Z")
[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2QPy4XaYAA7lgM?format=jpg&name=small) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2QPy4XaYAA7lgM?format=jpg&name=small) ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5942 "2023-07-30T10:41:59Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > I’m not supporting that at all, but how does one, “…cause an epilepsy”? I do know what was meant, but the wording is unfortunate. X gon give it to ya! ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5943 "2023-07-30T10:56:51Z")
Big surprise, [Kanye West is back on Twix.](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/30/x-formerly-known-as-twitter-reinstates-kanye-west-account) But don’t worry. “X reinstated Ye’s account after receiving reassurance that he would not use the platform to share anti-Semitic or otherwise harmful language, the report said, quoting a person familiar with the matter.” So _that’s_ all right. ---
**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 30, 2023, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5944 "2023-07-30T12:18:31Z")
That is, with no word of exaggeration, one of the ugliest things I have ever seen.\* It looks like a gigantic version of something that a kid with no skills and no imagination might have built around 1920 with a beginner’s Meccano set containing only about a dozen parts. It distinctly brings to mind the kind of creative art expressed in an old Dilbert cartoon (back when _Dilbert_ was good): an intern takes his completed project to Dilbert, saying “I didn’t know how to build a power supply, so I put a nail in a piece of wood”. When it comes to sophistication, that’s about Elmo’s speed. Putting that monstrosity on top of a historic building is obscene. \* With the possible exception of the Cybertruck. ---
**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 30, 2023, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5945 "2023-07-30T13:50:35Z")
:After an unfortunate incident involving a roof-top display, Elon explains how X is going to deal with the returning A.\_Hitler: [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DlKWdWqW4AA7x_b.jpg) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DlKWdWqW4AA7x_b.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=296) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=298)