# 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:** 475
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9516 "2024-04-21T14:18:49Z")
Shouldn’t that be _X-forming_? ---
**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:** [April 21, 2024, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9517 "2024-04-21T23:19:16Z")
That Husky must be miserable in Australia. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9518 "2024-04-21T23:25:16Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Shouldn’t that be _X-forming_? Hey, don’t deadname the planet X by calling it Mars! ---
**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:** [April 21, 2024, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9519 "2024-04-21T23:29:42Z")
Wait, I thought Earth was blocking Planet X’s view of Mars. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9520 "2024-04-22T01:01:00Z")
Don’t you mean [_Persephone_ (Wiki link)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_planets_of_the_Solar_System)? ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9521 "2024-04-22T22:20:59Z")
Oh, thank god, Elmo is finally going to fix Twitter. > ---
**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:** [April 22, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9522 "2024-04-22T22:39:21Z")
“On Tuesday, Tesla is expected to report a 40% plunge in operating profit and its first revenue decline in four years. Musk has ordered up the company’s biggest layoffs ever and staked its future on a next-generation, self-driving vehicle concept called the robotaxi. People familiar with his directives, who asked not to be identified discussing internal deliberations, are unsettled by the changes the CEO wants to push through.” > **[Elon Musk’s Robotaxi Dreams Plunge Tesla Into Chaos](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-robotaxi-dreams-plunge-200004973.html)** > > (Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk’s underlings at Tesla Inc. are accustomed to chaos. It comes with the territory of working for a chief executive who sets exacting targets and often abruptly switches directions — whose biographer describes his more intense... Whatever he’s high on right now, the comedown is gonna be brutal. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2024, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9523 "2024-04-22T22:44:34Z")
He’s going to fucking sink a viable electric car company, isn’t he. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2024, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9524 "2024-04-22T22:45:35Z")
Can someone explain what engagement farming is? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9525 "2024-04-22T22:50:07Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > He’s going to fucking sink a viable electric car company, isn’t he. After beta-testing the process on Xitter, he’s ready to go into full-scale production. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9526 "2024-04-22T22:51:04Z")
Posting controversial, annoying, or baity content that other users (or bots) engage with. Can be used to build credible accounts for other purposes. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9527 "2024-04-22T23:07:50Z")
Here’s an article explaining what engagement farming is, why it’s used, some examples of it, and the problems it causes. > **[Engagement Farming: The Dark Side of Social Media - Skinnedcartree](https://skinnedcartree.com/engagement-farming-on-social-media)** > > I don't know about you, but I am sick of the backteeth of seeing engagement farming posts all over my social media page. It's just as bad as rage-baiting in ---
**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:** [April 22, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9528 "2024-04-22T23:09:57Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > He’s going to fucking sink a viable electric car company, isn’t he. T-t-t-tell it, it to Earth. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9529 "2024-04-22T23:17:37Z")
Oh thanks, very informative. Thanks to you too steronz. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9530 "2024-04-22T23:24:52Z")
The reason I saw Musks tweet was that it was accompanied with a screenshot of Musk engaging with someone who was clearly engagement farming. However, I didn’t check if it was real. But it does fit stuff we’ve seen him reply to before. But, to be fair, it sounds like he just now learned about it, maybe from the other platforms’ attempts to reduce it. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9531 "2024-04-22T23:46:22Z")
Shut up and let the masses give you money and prop up your stock value way out of line with your revenue. OR Take a bunch of ketamine and spout some insane, racist, and/or stupid bullshit for months on end and reduce your net worth by more than the GDP of a small nation. Apparently, that’s a tough choice for some. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9532 "2024-04-23T00:15:20Z")
_“Don’t Feed the Engagement Farmer”_ just doesn’t roll off the tongue. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9533 "2024-04-23T00:30:17Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Can someone explain what engagement farming is? Well, that’s the best part. It’s whatever Elmo decides it is. One could even describe most of Elmo’s Twits as engagement farming. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9534 "2024-04-23T01:01:28Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Shut up and let the masses give you money and prop up your stock value way out of line with your revenue. > > OR > > Take a bunch of ketamine and spout some insane, racist, and/or stupid bullshit for months on end and reduce your net worth by more than the GDP of a small nation. > > Apparently, that’s a tough choice for some He has enough money to satisfy any material desire he could ever articulate. But adulation from his fanbois, disgust from his enemies, that sweet, sweet attention…ah, now _that’s_ a drug to make heroin look like aspirin. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9535 "2024-04-23T01:29:36Z")
Rather than just his fanbois, he seems to want the adulation of the masses. And he’s not getting it. For _some_ reason he doesn’t understand why spouting a bunch of wannabe edgelord bullshit doesn’t work. Probably some mix of the ketamine and the fact that his vast wealth means nobody in his immediate circle ever calls him on his bullshit to his face so he thinks everybody actually agrees with his clearly profound ideas and the detractors are crisis actors or some such (note some people have said pretty much this - that he’s so insulated from regular people that it boggles his mind when he encounters a person who absolutely does not give a shit what he says). It’s just so hard not really being a deeply bigoted, unpleasant dudebro but somebody who is always right about everything and just tells it like it is. 🙄 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=474) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=476)