# 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:** 34
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/661 "2022-11-09T03:41:33Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Elon is rolling out a gray checkmark to do the exact same thing the blue checkmark was designed to do before he decided to cbange it to meaning “I have eight dollars”. > > [https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/08/tech/twitter-gray-check-mark/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/08/tech/twitter-gray-check-mark/index.html) > > Also, in a sign that THIS IS FINE EVERYTHING IS FINE WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME THAT WAY I’M NOT YELLING YOU’RE YELLING, he’s sold off $4 billion in Tesla stock. > > [x.com](https://mobile.twitter.com/EdLudlow/status/1590152956766478336) > > At rhis rate, by the time his Twitter fiasco is done he won’t own Tesla either. And that would be a very good thing. For Tesla, that is. Right now, Tesla is too distracted by things outside it’s core businesses. The android robot is the prime example. There’s all kinds of other companies trying to do a human-shaped robot; why does Musk think Tesla can jump in and do it better? Well, they can’t. And shouldn’t try. Waste of money. Anyway, without Musk always jumping to the next shiny thing, they need someone to get down to working on the core businesses. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/662 "2022-11-09T05:02:32Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > > [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > > > D.D. Harriman > > Is this the guy who employed Woodcock to keep Butch from robbing the Flyer? > > _“Think you used enough dynamite there, Elon?”_ It was E.H. Harriman who entrusted Woodcock with the responsibility of getting the money through. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2022, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/663 "2022-11-09T05:19:34Z")
And he wasn’t paying him enough to get killed was the consensus. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2022, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/664 "2022-11-09T07:26:09Z")
Tesla has lost 16% of its value since the Twitter buyout, or roughly three times what Elon paid for the hellsite. > ---
**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:** [November 9, 2022, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/665 "2022-11-09T07:44:22Z")
Hang on, I think I have a violin around here somewhere. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/666 "2022-11-09T11:33:46Z")
Here you go. [![](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/409/037/b95) ](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/409/037/b95) ---
**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 9, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/667 "2022-11-09T13:38:56Z")
So there’s basically two scenarios, right? Either Twitter ceases to be a place where serious debate happens on news and politics, or in two months (or possibly a week) the chant from the imbecile right will be “damn those elite grey checkmark snobs”! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/668 "2022-11-09T15:03:51Z")
> [@naita](#): > > or in two months (or possibly a week) Not two weeks? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/669 "2022-11-09T15:31:53Z")
> [@naita](#): > > the chant from the imbecile right will be “damn those elite grey checkmark snobs”! I am curious as to how those who felt that the blue checks only going to the “elite” now feel, now that blue checks go to people duped into paying for them, and the “elite” now get grey checks. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/670 "2022-11-09T15:34:39Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > > [@naita](#): > > > > the chant from the imbecile right will be “damn those elite grey checkmark snobs”! > > I am curious as to how those who felt that the blue checks only going to the “elite” now feel, now that blue checks go to people duped into paying for them, and the “elite” now get grey checks.   Elon Musk can do no wrong, so it must be a clever plan to pwn the libs by giving them checkmarks so worn out they’ve faded. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/671 "2022-11-09T15:40:58Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I am curious as to how those who felt that the blue checks only going to the “elite” now feel, now that blue checks go to people duped into paying for them, and the “elite” now get grey checks. Hey, Elon McMonkey McBean needs _something_ else to sell once all the Sneeches have blue checkmarks on their bellies. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/672 "2022-11-09T15:51:56Z")
> [@naita](#): > > Either Twitter ceases to be a place where serious debate happens on news and politics You mean those of us who have never been on Twitter and instead rely on sites like Washington Post, New York Times, the Guardian and nearby metropolitan newspapers for news and StraightDope and Reddit for presenting our own political views have been seriously missing out? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/673 "2022-11-09T15:56:58Z")
If it is, as Musk called it, “a lords and peasant system.” then does that mean that people who pay for blue checks are just fools that thought they were buying into royalty? ---
**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:** [November 9, 2022, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/674 "2022-11-09T16:10:48Z")
It’s like one of those outfits that will sell you a “coat of arms” based on “genealogical research” _snort_. ---
**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 9, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/675 "2022-11-09T16:16:27Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > You mean those of us who have never been on Twitter and instead rely on sites like Washington Post, New York Times, the Guardian and nearby metropolitan newspapers for news and StraightDope and Reddit for presenting our own political views have been seriously missing out? Yes… ---
**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 9, 2022, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/676 "2022-11-09T18:56:13Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > You mean those of us who have never been on Twitter and instead rely on sites like Washington Post, New York Times, the Guardian and nearby metropolitan newspapers for news and StraightDope and Reddit for presenting our own political views have been seriously missing out? On the debates that happened on Twitter? Yes. You also missed out on the debates happening in plethora of other arenas. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2022, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/677 "2022-11-09T18:56:18Z")
Musk is having a conference call with advertisers right now, apparently, and … based on the quotes being reported, I wouldn’t say it’s going particularly well. > (Thread. Click through for more.) ---
**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 9, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/678 "2022-11-09T19:18:43Z")
> [@Elon Musk Indirectly](#): > > I have a lot of faith in humanity, most people are good. So we’re all agreed, Twitter dead? Twitter dead now. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/679 "2022-11-09T19:32:26Z")
The translate tweet option has disappeared. I figure he wants to charge for that too. Dammit. I follow a lot Ukrainians and now I don’t know what they’re saying. ---
**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 9, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/680 "2022-11-09T19:32:33Z")
Musk just killed that Official check that they just rolled out. > [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=35)