# 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:** [May 17, 2023, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4861 "2023-05-17T02:35:24Z")

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> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> after Musk did his layoffs other tech companies followed suit and laid off huge numbers of employees.

Huh, six months ago [you were presenting this as a simultaneous general trend in the tech industry,](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-legal-elon-musk-ultimatum-do-extremely-hardcore-work-or-get-out/975040/108) not as some kind of Twitter-led management revolution.

> [@Sam\_Stone on November 18](#):
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> If I were a $200,000-$300,000 Twitter employee, I would be very worried about being able to find an equivalent job. Silicon Valley is currently laying off employees like crazy, and it’s going to get worse. Twitter is not an exception in this regard

But now that you want to rhetorically boost your pitch for Musk’s claims to brilliance, suddenly the notion of large-scale IT layoffs last fall was all Musk’s idea, and other Silicon Valley tech companies merely “followed suit” in his wake. Uh-huh.

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