The old Scooby-Doo villain excuse.
The average Scooby-Doo villain didn’t have the emotional maturity of a ten-year-old, though.
I mean, it’s not even a very good joke. There’s nothing clever about it, it’s just snickering over a naughty word.
And I say this as a middle-aged guy with two brothers who, when together, routinely regress to making adolescent jokes. But we at least try to be more creative than that.
When did boy wonder - sorry, Mr. Tweets - start referring to his company as T(w)itter? And does this now make him Mr. T(w)eets?
Is that what they’re going for? And here I was wondering what they were tittering about.
Well, see, his agile brain was going to change the company’s name to Giggle, but then came upon this cost-savings measure.
Why do you think they’re not doing anything about the porn? 
It’s okay, this all part of Elon’s genius plan to get everything back on track. Here are two consultants he recently hired.
You know, it occurs to me that a company that isn’t making rent had to pay someone to climb, what, 15 or 20 feet up the side of a building and paint over the W?
Brilliant
If he got paid up front.
And it’s not even a complete paint job – still plenty of bleed from underneath. Needs a few more coats. And it looks dumb with the space between the t and the i. Certainly doesn’t read very well. Any maybe I’m just too literate, because “titter” means nothing else to me but, quoting Merriam-Webster: to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner. I guess urbandictionary also gives me “strip club” as a meaning for it, but it doesn’t seem to be a popular word, with 24 upvotes and 10 downvotes on it, whereas living slang tends to have vote totals in the hundreds to thousands.
Clearly, I’m overthinking it. It’s just 'tit" that makes him titter, huh? So weak. Yet, here I am feeding the troll.
That’s what it made me think of too.
Though without the “w” people are making “teets”…
Is there any precedent whatsoever for this behavior? Where a supremely-wealthy person acquires a major organization and turns it into a bit of self-mockery? The closest I can think of is Caligula. I can’t think of anything else in American history. Not even Trump.
It feels like “Springtime for Hitler”. Is a Twitter bankruptcy the most reasonable out for him?
How about Nero.
Nero’s good, too–I confess I get my insane destructive megalomaniac Roman emperors mixed up sometimes.
If we all pay him $8, does that mean he’ll go to jail?
“A nervous titter ran through the crowd.”
It reminds me a lot of William Randoph Hearst.
After 1918 and the end of World War I, Hearst gradually began adopting more conservative views and started promoting an isolationist foreign policy to avoid any more entanglement in what he regarded as corrupt European affairs. He was at once a militant nationalist, a staunch anti-communist after the Russian Revolution, and deeply suspicious of the League of Nations and of the British, French, Japanese, and Russians.[3] Following Hitler’s rise to power, Hearst became a supporter of the Nazi party, ordering his journalists to publish favourable coverage of Nazi Germany, and allowing leading Nazis to publish articles in his newspapers.[4] He was a leading supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932–1934, but then broke with FDR and became his most prominent enemy on the right. Hearst’s publication reached a peak circulation of 20 million readers a day in the mid-1930s. He poorly managed finances and was so deeply in debt during the Great Depression that most of his assets had to be liquidated in the late 1930s. Hearst managed to keep his newspapers and magazines.
While he was not the reason for the Spanish-American war, he was a factor.
When Hearst Artist Frederic Remington, cabled from Cuba in 1897 that “there will be no war,” William Randolph Hearst cabled back: “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” Someone is furnishing something when the latest from Twitter is that Musk has allowed back the Russian accounts that were banned because of disinformation and propaganda. Bring back more of the unhinged yellow journalism then, and make Tweeter a State Affiliated Media… Just not our State.
Hearst was awful, but he wasn’t so juvenile, was he?