# 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:** 31
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/601 "2022-11-07T19:32:58Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Musk says he wants Twitter to ge the most accurate source of information around. I don’t see that ever happening. Twitter is more of an information battle ground, populated by numerous bad actors, trolls, state disinformation, idiots, etc. If he thinks he can turn that into an objective information space, well… good luck to him Indeed. But also, this is a strategy that implies more, not fewer, content moderators. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/602 "2022-11-07T20:05:37Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Twitter was not and is not a technology company. The tech involved in collecting and redistributing small blocks of text and media is utterly trivial, compared to the Microsofts and Amazons of the world. There was and is nothing cutting-edge about Twitter, beyond perhaps the scale and performance requirements needed to keep a huge pipeline of data constantly flowing. I’d argue that at least some of Twitter’s value proposition is technology. The scale and performance requirements for the pipelines are definitely non-trivial (to the point where I’ve attended talks about how they do it). It’s not flashy ML stuff, but it’s more than I would expect from a garage startup. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/603 "2022-11-07T20:16:30Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > People impersonate Elon Musk. > > Musk: “All parody impersonation accounts must be labeled as such, or they will be suspended.” > > Clearly-labeled parody account impersonates Elon Musk What makes the Musk Rat guard his Musk? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/604 "2022-11-07T20:16:58Z")
> [@leahcim](#): > > > [@Cervaise](#): > > > > Twitter was not and is not a technology company. The tech involved in collecting and redistributing small blocks of text and media is utterly trivial, compared to the Microsofts and Amazons of the world. There was and is nothing cutting-edge about Twitter, beyond perhaps the scale and performance requirements needed to keep a huge pipeline of data constantly flowing. ⁢ > > I’d argue that at least some of Twitter’s value proposition is technology. The scale and performance requirements for the pipelines are definitely non-trivial (to the point where I’ve attended talks about how they do it). It’s not flashy ML stuff, but it’s more than I would expect from a garage startup. ⁢ Oh, sure. That technology is valuable. But that isn’t the reason why Musk bought Twitter. He wasn’t thinking of leveraging their technology for other sites or anything. He wanted the Twitter userbase–the communities that it has build up. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/605 "2022-11-07T20:21:52Z")
Courage! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/606 "2022-11-07T20:23:56Z")
[Click here](https://imgur.com/swZXym6) to see what I consider the easiest to read screencap of Jacques’s posts (as you can just keep scrolling down). I actually hadn’t realized how many he made. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/607 "2022-11-07T20:34:58Z")
That’s gold, Jerry! Gold!! ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/608 "2022-11-07T20:56:26Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Courage! Sometimes foolish pride. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/609 "2022-11-07T20:58:31Z")
Nah, that makes the flag on the mast to wave! ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/610 "2022-11-07T21:16:33Z")
Musk tweets in favor of voting Republican. Seems he really, really wants to burn the current Twitter to the ground. Is he just tired of having lots of money, or deluded enough he thinks he’ll succeed on building a hugely profitable right wing twitter where gabber, getter, setter and truth have all failed? > ---
**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:** [November 7, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/611 "2022-11-07T21:17:32Z")
Musk is running Twitter in precisely the way that I would expect octopus to run the straight dope message board. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/612 "2022-11-07T21:43:58Z")
Didn’t he already say he wanted to vote for Desantis in 2024 undermining that whole wanting shared power thing? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/613 "2022-11-07T21:48:25Z")
Nah he wants to claim a share of credit if/when what looks like the most likely outcome happens as expected. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/614 "2022-11-07T21:52:16Z")
I like the message. Because nothing screams “independent-minded voter” more than conforming to some opinion you found on social media. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2022, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/615 "2022-11-07T21:56:01Z")
[https://twitter.com/cpoliticditto/status/1589725917899034625?t=O97EKtIAdVZGZv0fwXYgpg&s=19](https://twitter.com/cpoliticditto/status/1589725917899034625?t=O97EKtIAdVZGZv0fwXYgpg&s=19) ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/616 "2022-11-07T22:19:13Z")
**Moderator Warning** > [@JohnT](#): > > Musk is running Twitter in precisely the way that I would expect octopus to run the straight dope message board. This is an official warning for personal insults outside of the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/617 "2022-11-07T22:55:58Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Not any more. Big tech massively overhired in the past couple years and is now either having hiring freezes or doing layoffs. A few companies overhired and are right-sizing. Some are freezing ancillary jobs like sales and marketing. Visa holders are sweating it. True, they won’t command the large wage premium they did last year, but overall demand is very strong. But actual techies authorized to work in the US will have no trouble at all finding new employment. My company’s hiring, or at least my division is. We lost some of the frilliest perks, but eh, I’ve seen much leaner times. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/618 "2022-11-07T23:22:15Z")
Musk accidentally laid off people he later realized he needed. At least one says E refused to return. > **[Musk-led Twitter laid off some employees by mistake, asks them to come back](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/musk-led-twitter-laid-off-some-employees-by-mistake-asks-them-to-come-back/)** > > Dozens of canned workers asked back after Twitter realizes they're still needed. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2022, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/619 "2022-11-07T23:41:59Z")
So, one of the thinnest skinned humans alive has no idea what he is doing with his new multi-billion dollar toy? ETA: How quick and how big is the buyers remorse going to be for this purchase? ---
**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:** [November 7, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/620 "2022-11-07T23:46:20Z")
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