# 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:** 302
**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:** [August 1, 2023, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6026 "2023-08-01T04:06:34Z")
It’s all being done for publicity, so people will talk about him and his company. Good thing it’s not working! ---
**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:** [August 1, 2023, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6027 "2023-08-01T04:10:07Z")
He’s having the most expensive mid-life crisis in human history. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2023, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6028 "2023-08-01T05:11:57Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > What the Fux is wrong with this guy? In addition to the very long list of everything else, **[drugs](https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2023/06/27/elon-musk-touts-ketamine-for-depression-following-report-on-his-use-of-drug/).** ---
**Author:** ![tofor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tofor/32/13727_2.png) [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6029 "2023-08-01T11:42:11Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > It’s all being done for publicity, so people will talk about him and his company. Good thing it’s not working! Exactly. From Musk’s perspective, the sign was a roaring success. It was massively helpful in spreading the word nationally that Twitter is now X. The fact that it was hideous and illegal helped spread the story, which was the point all along. Now it’s gone because it served its purpose. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2023, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6030 "2023-08-01T11:52:03Z")
It’s a double whammy - the boy who never grew up has a midlife crisis. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6031 "2023-08-01T19:47:33Z")
I mean, isn’t that really a bit ol’ “no shit?” Who didn’t think that? But how do you ignore it when it’s as disruptive as it is to neighbors and a safety hazard, among other things. News kind of has a responsibility to report it. I mean 99% of what Musk does is for the headlines. Sometimes you can’t just ignore the troll. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2023, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6032 "2023-08-01T21:39:39Z")
“If”? ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6033 "2023-08-02T00:14:40Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Why didn’t anybody tell me that if you don’t feel like dealing with some annoying regulation, you can just refuse to let the bureaucrats show up to enforce it? That’ll save me a lot of trouble at tax time! That’s what The Beatles should have done with their roof-top concert! Although to be fair, they delayed them as long as they could. Brit cops have even more power than American enforcers even armed only with beat sticks. ---
**Author:** ![tofor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tofor/32/13727_2.png) [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6034 "2023-08-02T11:31:49Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Sometimes you can’t just ignore the troll. Can’t we just get a mod to send him to the cornfield? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6035 "2023-08-02T19:40:10Z")
Something I hadn’t considered that makes that deathtrap “X” sign on the roof of the San Francisco headquarters of Twitter an even worse idea: Twitter doesn’t own the building, and there is zero chance they asked their landlord permission’s for an illegal and dangerous modification of a protected building. But the landlord is going to get hit by the city for the costs of all the permits and inspections Elmo decided they didn’t need. > **[Elon Musk's giant 'X' sign is going to cost his landlord fees for building...](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-sign-twitter-headquarters-landlord-fees-agency-says-2023-8)** > > Elon Musk recently had huge "X" logo put on the roof of the social media company's headquarters, prompting a slew of complaints from angry neighbors. Maybe the landlord can recover those fees along with the millions of rent arrears Twitter still owes them. Lesson: if someone offers you a business opportunity involving Twitter, RUN. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2023, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6036 "2023-08-02T19:54:10Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > Lesson: if someone offers you a business opportunity involving Twitter, RUN. This is what we’ve learned over the past few years about how to be a successful business: - Don’t pay your suppliers; threaten to sue them - Pass responsibility off to others - Get your name in the news - good or bad, doesn’t matter - Insult others in a juvenile fashion on social media - Keep the grift pipeline going - If in doubt about a bad idea, double down - Borrow money; claim you are rich ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6037 "2023-08-02T20:11:27Z")
I get whiplash watching Elmo’s dizzying intellect at work. He makes the prominent and valuable “blue check” a benefit of paying good money on a recurring basis to Twitter. And then he allows the ~~sheep he fleeces~~ paying customer to hide that prominent and valuable blue check. Possibly because some people are realizing it’s not flattering to display your badge of gullibility to the entire Twitterverse. > **[Elon Musk's X/Twitter is letting paying users hide their blue ticks](https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-letting-paid-users-hide-blue-ticks)** > > The memes must be getting too much. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6038 "2023-08-02T20:30:10Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > This is what we’ve learned over the past few years about how to be a successful business: Elon must have gotten his business degree from Trump University. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6039 "2023-08-02T20:45:26Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > Lesson: if someone offers you a business opportunity involving Twitter, RUN. Stop calling it Twitter guys, Elmo paid good money $44 billion to call it ‘X’ cos ‘X’ is the coolest letter. That’s why he named his children Xavier, X Æ A-Xii and Exa Dark Sideræl. You have to respect peoples choices in names\*! \*Does not apply if you are a transgender child of Elmo. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6040 "2023-08-02T20:56:00Z")
I think the similarities have been noted before. It’s a very similar business mindset. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6041 "2023-08-02T21:01:44Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > ‘X’ is the coolest letter “X” is the coolest letter _in the United States_. If they pronounced “Z” correctly, they’d realize that “Z” is an order of magnitude cooler than “X”. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6042 "2023-08-02T21:05:49Z")
If that were true, then ZZ Top would not have needed two of them. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6043 "2023-08-02T21:15:01Z")
Z is dead. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6044 "2023-08-02T21:41:47Z")
X is ex. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6045 "2023-08-02T22:05:20Z")
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