# 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:** 448
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8946 "2024-02-03T03:35:04Z")
Tech question. Would it be easy to create a bot that scrapes twitter and reposts messages to Mastodon, Bluesky, etc. Or would such a bot be easy to defeat by X’s engineers or lawyers? Ditto for a bot that posts to multiple platforms. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8947 "2024-02-03T03:50:08Z")
It would be easy to create such a bot, and fairly easy for Twitter to block it once their engineers figured out what was going on. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8948 "2024-02-03T04:13:19Z")
There’s an app in beta right now, Yup, that will allow you to cross post to bluesky, Twitter, and I forget where else. Though posting in multiple places isn’t the tricky part, apparently it also integrates those platform feeds into the app so you can see interactions. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8949 "2024-02-03T09:19:25Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > There’s an app in beta right now, Yup, that will allow you to cross post to bluesky, Twitter, and I forget where else. Is it called WUPHF? ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8950 "2024-02-03T17:10:30Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > …fairly easy for Twitter to block it once their engineers… Didn’t they all get fired? ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8951 "2024-02-03T17:36:20Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Didn’t they all get fired? Just the woke ones! Clearly the ones left are still sleeping. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2024, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8952 "2024-02-04T06:15:43Z")
Looks like Elmo hasn’t figured out how to deal with the Scunthorpe Problem. > > ---
**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:** [February 4, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8953 "2024-02-04T14:35:39Z")
Nazis good, kinks bad. Sounds about right for that platform. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8954 "2024-02-04T17:15:18Z")
But what about Nazi kinks? Are they good or bad? ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2024, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8955 "2024-02-04T18:17:07Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Musk says that ever since the Rogan toke, NASA has required him to take random drug tests. He says that in three years of being tested they’ve never found a thing. > > When he was on Rogan, he said that he’d never tried pot before. Rogan convinced him to take a couple of puffs on a blunt, which is the picture everyone sees, and that was that. Then NASA freaked out about it, and he agreed to random drug tests. [Just the most gullible motherfucker alive](https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-tesla-money-drugs-board-61af9ac4). > [@](#): > > At the upscale Austin Proper Hotel, Musk has attended social gatherings in recent years with Tesla board member Joe Gebbia, the Airbnb co-founder and a friend of his, where Musk took ketamine recreationally through a nasal spray bottle multiple times, according to people familiar with the drug use and the parties. > > Other directors, Gracias, Jurvetson and Kimbal Musk, have consumed drugs with him, according to people who have witnessed the drug use and others with knowledge of it. > > The volume of drug use by Musk and with board members has become concerning, some of these people said. > In the culture Musk has created around him, some friends, including directors, feel there is an expectation to consume drugs with him because they think refraining could upset the billionaire, who has made them a lot of money, some of the people said. > > Around the winter of 2022, Musk’s good friend and former Tesla board member, Ellison, urged him to come to his Hawaiian island to relax from work and dry out from the drugs, according to people familiar with the offer. > > The outreach came as friends and others close to Musk worried that his drug use was getting worse, and some asked him to go to rehab, some of the people said. > > Around the same time as the Ellison offer, Musk attended a party in the Hollywood Hills where he consumed a liquid form of ecstasy from a water bottle, according to a person who was there. Musk’s security guards asked people to leave the floor of the house for privacy before Musk took the drug. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2024, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8956 "2024-02-04T20:19:32Z")
Sam was defending a position, not weighing evidence. Under [Galef’s terminology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scout_Mindset), he was thinking like a soldier, rather than like a scout seeking an accurate map. I had wondered about a board member resigning due to Elon’s drug use. It’s a little clearer now: she also didn’t want to be pressured into taking illegal or abusive substances, or so I speculate. That and due diligence concerns. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8957 "2024-02-04T23:17:53Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > But what about Nazi kinks? Naughty skinks can be fun. (Also, new band name!) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8958 "2024-02-07T04:35:33Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “Aaron Rupar”, “free speech”, “Elon’s Jet”, and “Mastodon” are all among the top trends right now, so I guess we can add the Streisand Effect to the list of things Elon doesn’t understand. Poor Smapti, what will you do now that your favorite musician is taking a page out of Musk’s playbook? > **[Taylor Swift threatens to sue student who tracks her private jet](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68223602)** > > Taylor Swift's lawyers say the data shared online is a threat to the singer's "safety and wellbeing". ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8959 "2024-02-07T04:45:12Z")
Odd that, according to that Wikipedia article, Galef uses Musk as an example of the scout mentality. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2024, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8960 "2024-02-07T05:13:27Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > Poor Smapti, what will you do now that your favorite musician is taking a page out of Musk’s playbook? “Favorite” is pushing it. That’d probably be Pete Townshend. Tay-Tay is definitely in the Top 10, though. I’d say she’s exaggerating the risk here. The location of her jet is available to anyone with a Flightradar24 account whether or not this kid tracks it on Twitter or not, and there isn’t much a deranged stalker would be able to learn from it that they couldn’t already learn just by paying attention to her tour schedule, media appearances, etc. Knowing that her jet handed at, let’s say, O’Hare this afternoon doesn’t tell you where she’s staying, what kind of car she’ll be in, what her route will be, or anything else that would help you track her down in a city of that size. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8961 "2024-02-07T05:26:02Z")
I think if the stalker who was arrested recently is shown to have used that specific site to know when she was in town, she might have a case to make. I do think, given the timing, that it’s tied to that specific stalker. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2024, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8962 "2024-02-07T05:58:51Z")
Fuck, Musk fanboys are petty little asshats, eh? ---
**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:** [February 7, 2024, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8963 "2024-02-07T06:01:46Z")
[![](https://www.joeydevilla.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/weird-nerds-defending-elon-musk.jpg) ](https://www.joeydevilla.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/weird-nerds-defending-elon-musk.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8964 "2024-02-07T06:07:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’d say she’s exaggerating the risk here. I’d say so also (in both cases). Ultimately, this is public information, even if it’s usually hidden from _plain_ view (as compared to stalkerish attention). Still, broadening availability of this kind of info is making things weird. Celebrities now, maybe non-celebrities tomorrow. What happens when someone applies machine learning to a network of public webcams to track anyone’s license plate anywhere? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/8965 "2024-02-07T06:14:59Z")
That’s kinda rich as a response in an _8800-post_ thread to a post that’s really just “you know, Taylor Swift, generally perceived to be ‘authentic’, might actually just be another out-of-touch billionaire willing to pick on some college student”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=447) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=449)