# 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:** 342
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6826 "2023-09-22T21:40:01Z")
These folks are lucky Dear Xleader doesn’t have any anti-aircraft guns to put them in front of. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2023, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6827 "2023-09-22T21:44:04Z")
The irony of this story appears to be that Elmo fired the employees putting out the ad for being stupid and/or careless enough to include **one of his own tweets** in the ad! 😄 You’re not supposed to say the part about the Jews out loud! ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6828 "2023-09-22T22:23:54Z")
From the tweet: “Their mistakes were not forgiven by management.” Yup, totally an accident. It certainly couldn’t be that some pissed off employees snuck it in as a “fuck you” to Musk. And I’m confident the fact that they were fired for it means the higher ups know very well it wasn’t a mistake. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6829 "2023-09-22T22:36:25Z")
The people responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked wish it to be known that they have been sacked. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6830 "2023-09-22T23:04:01Z")
It’s sacks all the way down. Now all we need to do is get working on sacks all the way _up_! ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6831 "2023-09-23T00:07:13Z")
Elon invents Reverse Trickle Up Economics. ---
**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:** [September 23, 2023, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6832 "2023-09-23T00:07:35Z")
Elmø once bit my sister! No realli! She was Karving her initials on Elmø with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge, her brother-in-law, who works for SpaceX and stars in many Norwegian møvies. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6833 "2023-09-23T02:33:04Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Yup, totally an accident. It certainly couldn’t be that some pissed off employees snuck it in as a “fuck you” to Musk. I’m sorry those folks got fired (though I assume they knew they would be and did it anyway), but ye gods I love this story. It just makes me smile and smile 😂😂😂 ---
**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:** [September 23, 2023, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6834 "2023-09-23T03:06:39Z")
More of Elmo’s genius market strategy of yelling at people and telling them to post their shit on his dumpster fire. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6rbQwlWIAAKysg?format=webp&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6rbQwlWIAAKysg?format=webp&name=medium) ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6835 "2023-09-23T03:50:22Z")
Maybe he should have tried sending Russell Brand some of that revenue sharing like he did with his brother in sexual assault allegations Andrew Tate. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6836 "2023-09-23T06:49:14Z")
If I was working for any company that had any involvement with Elmo I’d be looking for a new job. The man is anathema to healthy employment relations. He will always put his people last. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6837 "2023-09-23T10:34:25Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > And I’m confident the fact that they were fired for it means the higher ups know very well it wasn’t a mistake. It was either malicious (tee hee!) or incompetence. But either way, when a major marketing push gets boogered up like that, peeps are gonna be fired. ---
**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:** [September 23, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6838 "2023-09-23T20:01:19Z")
Elmo is deadnaning his app on the Apple store. > ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6839 "2023-09-23T20:04:53Z")
Maybe he was blazing his glory a bit too much. ---
**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:** [September 23, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6840 "2023-09-23T20:33:25Z")
Seriously. What a stupid slogan. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6841 "2023-09-23T22:02:59Z")
Elon doesn’t know how to change the IOS app page description. It’s another “incompetent” employee. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2023, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6842 "2023-09-24T02:22:26Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > lining up to let Elmo staple a Bluetooth adapter to their frontal cortex. I laughed more than I should have … ---
**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:** [September 24, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6843 "2023-09-24T20:38:20Z")
> Morgan Freeman: “In 2023, Twitter had 230 million active daily users.” ---
**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:** [September 24, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6844 "2023-09-24T20:44:08Z")
I’m reasonably confident that much if not most of the information being delivered to him by exhausted underlings is altered if not entirely fictional. Musk seems like a messenger killer. So if he’s demanding expansion of content views, his staff will make him a Potemkin village of reports that say exactly that. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6845 "2023-09-24T20:49:02Z")
Musk knows he can say whatever garbage he wants and his incel Heinlein fanboys will lap it up and defend it as if it was handed down on stone tablets from heaven. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=341) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=343)