# 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:** 319
**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 23, 2023, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6366 "2023-08-23T05:51:49Z")
> > > Kylie Robison @kyliebytes Also, I am seeing reports from people that the new X platform is blocking users from including “twitter” in their screen name. You know, like “Joe Schmoe on Twitter” or whatever, so people who aren’t constantly online will know what this new “X” link is supposed to be. The platform throws an error that “twitter” can’t be in the handle, because they are clumsily trying to enforce a hard cutover to the new brand. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6367 "2023-08-23T06:35:15Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Also, I am seeing reports from people that the new X platform is blocking users from including “twitter” in their screen name. Funny, because the http is still [twitter.com](http://twitter.com). Trying to manually type [x.com](http://x.com) just redirects me to [twitter.com](http://twitter.com). And it’s only now just occurred to me that [x.com](http://x.com) would be insulting one of the greatest video games ever made. > **[X-COM: UFO Defense](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM:_UFO_Defense)** > > UFO: Enemy Unknown (original European title), also known as X-COM: UFO Defense in North America and as X-COM: Enemy Unknown, is a 1994 science fiction strategy video game developed by Mythos Games and MicroProse. It was published by MicroProse for DOS and Amiga computers, the Amiga CD32 console, and the PlayStation. Originally planned by Julian Gollop as a sequel to Mythos Games' 1988 Laser Squad, the game mixes real-time management simulation with turn-based tactics. The player takes the role ... ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6368 "2023-08-23T15:33:31Z")
I’m starting to think there’s a good chance Musk dies from an OD in the coming months. He definitely seems to be over-self-medicating. And who is going to tell him no? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6369 "2023-08-23T16:04:19Z")
If he’s going to die soon, I reckon it will be from some stupid stunt he’s involved in to make himself look cool, whether it’s being run over by a self-driving Tesla, getting blown up in an exploding rocket, or falling down a hyperloop borehole. ---
**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 23, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6370 "2023-08-23T16:06:02Z")
Maybe a medical first as he overdoses on himself? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6371 "2023-08-23T16:11:32Z")
That would be remarkable considering how much tolerance to himself he’s built up. Compared to most people, for whom the LD50 is very low. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6372 "2023-08-23T16:43:49Z")
This is not an enthusiastic view of either Musk nor Zusk. > **[Opinion: The biggest losers of a Zuckerberg-Musk cage fight? The rest of us](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-biggest-losers-of-a-musk-zuckerberg-cage-fight-the-rest-of-us/)** > > The chatter over an embarrassingly macho grudge match between two tech billionaires is distracting us from real problems with Meta and X ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6373 "2023-08-23T18:02:53Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > I’m starting to think there’s a good chance Musk dies from an OD in the coming months. He definitely seems to be over-self-medicating. And who is going to tell him no? … and why? we def. need to stop over-policing everything and have “deep-structures” come down on freedom-loving individuals who are freely living their freedoms in freedom. Our founding fathers did not want that… **Are you a Commie or what?** /s ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6374 "2023-08-23T18:49:49Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Anyone who posted a news article for the headline will just throw in the headline. (Or post a pic of the article) And, if Twitter was still important, they’d change their official lead image to include text. Yup. Take your preferred headline, Photoshop it onto an image of a photogenic newsie holding it over his head in a standard **EXTRY, EXTRY, READ ALL ABOUT IT!** pose, make that the first image in your online posting of the item, and Thorvald Stronginthearm’s your uncle! ---
**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 23, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6375 "2023-08-23T22:02:42Z")
> > > Travis Ikeguchi @TravisIkeguchi ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6376 "2023-08-23T22:36:22Z")
He seems to have strayed a bit from the “path to salvation”. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6377 "2023-08-23T23:09:57Z")
I’m sure he would have said he died a martyr’s death. I have been following this case, as it’s appalling on so many levels, and deeply tragic. This is just one more element. Good on **Smapti** for reporting it, even if it went nowhere. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6378 "2023-08-23T23:14:20Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Good on **Smapti** for reporting it, even if it went nowhere. I don’t think **Smapti** reported him to anyone, unless he’s also @Medic\_Russel on Twitter. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6379 "2023-08-23T23:19:23Z")
Oh, I thought he was. I don’t tweet (or X), so I’m not familiar with the ins and outs of the platform. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6380 "2023-08-24T02:33:52Z")
I think I know the answer but I’ll ask anyway: Has Linda Yaccarino - the CEO of Twitter - made a single change since she got in? We get updates daily of what Elon’s up to with the platform, but does she even get a word in edge-wise? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6381 "2023-08-24T03:12:06Z")
Yaccety Yacc. Don’t talk back. ---
**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 24, 2023, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6382 "2023-08-24T03:54:24Z")
As far as I can tell her job description is “use business-speak to try to rationalize the things Elmo blurts out when he’s high as balls”. > > > Monica Lewinsky (she/her) @MonicaLewinsky > > > Elon Musk @elonmusk > ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6383 "2023-08-24T03:59:22Z")
Am I the only one looking at the image of the side of a building that @Smapti linked and saw the haloed lightpost as a meteor heading straight for the X? And if so, did anyone else smirk at it, only to sigh and realize it was just an optical illusion? Lastly, if anyone else had all of the above responses, please feel in joining me in hoping it’s prophetic of a small meteor plowing through an uninsured Xitter building while it’s unoccupied. ---
**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 24, 2023, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6384 "2023-08-24T04:02:52Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Am I the only one looking at the image of the side of a building that @Smapti linked and saw the haloed lightpost as a meteor heading straight for the X? Trident missile ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6385 "2023-08-24T05:18:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > …her job description is “use business-speak to try to rationalize the things Elmo blurts out when he’s high as balls”. I need someone to do this for me posting after drinking hours here on The Dope. I can’t offer much in the way of salary, but the benefits suck, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=318) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=320)