# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 1)

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/3903 "2023-03-16T01:43:32Z")

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> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> I then speculated that Musk might be bringing the same philosophy to Twitter - push features out fast, get feedback,. refactor. I believe I even said that the approach might not work in social media and could get him into trouble.
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> It was **speculation** based on previous evidence of how Musk works. It wasn’t a claim that’s that’s WHY he was doing everything he was doing, but one explanation as to what might be going on. I couched it that way, too. But of course, it got read in the worst possible way, mocked, and then turned into a giant pile-on.

Oh, come on, Sam. What you were getting mocked for was not the mere speculation that Musk’s approach might possibly be justified in such-and-such a hypothetical way. It was all your defensive doubling-down bullshit about how you would have eagerly staked your hypothetical professional future, or encouraged your hypothetical coder son to stake his professional future, on the chance of impressing Musk. Like [this.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-legal-elon-musk-ultimatum-do-extremely-hardcore-work-or-get-out/975040/282)

> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> If I were a young softwre developer again, I would have jumped at this chance. If you can impress a billionaire that you are special, you might leapfrog years or decades of advancement the traditional way. […]
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> […] young developers bailing on an opportunity to impress the richest man in the world with their skills are making a huge mistake. […]
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> The opportunity to hitch your wagon to him is extremely valuable. […]
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> But if my kid worked at Twitter and came home and said, “Elon Musk is firing everyone except a core group pf coders! I can take a payout now, or try to be in that group. What should I do?”
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> I would tell him that there is a real opportunity here for career advancement, but he’d have to be confident that his work is good enough and that he’s willing to put in long hours and put ip with some frustration for a time. If yes, I’d tell him to stay and take a awing. […]
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> But being in a group of a hundred or so people restarting the development of Twitter would be a rare opportunity. […] Not just for the career advance,ent, but for the learning opportunity. […]

As [I pointed out in that thread,](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-legal-elon-musk-ultimatum-do-extremely-hardcore-work-or-get-out/975040/324) you keep flipflopping between cautious caveats that nobody can be absolutely sure what’s going on or what’s going to happen, and bizarre hypotheticals expressing a degree of confidence in Musk that your own caveats don’t justify.

That’s why you get piled on and mocked, because rhetoric like your hypothetical encouragement to your hypothetical tech-professional son to try to “hitch his wagon” to Musk and “impress a billionaire” is so comically at odds with your claims to be merely “speculating” about how Musk’s strategies might possibly prove successful.

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