# Now that Musk bought Twitter -- Breaking News only **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** breaking-news, elon-musk\ **Created:** [November 29, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737 "2022-11-29T13:10:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/101 "2022-12-08T15:49:14Z")
My understanding on how things like onlyfans work is that you would actually put in a request for a specific act. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/102 "2022-12-08T17:06:42Z")
There are many reasons people pay for porn, not just for custom requests. I’d personally find that discussion interesting if someone wants to start a thread on it. But to avoid a hijack here, I’ll just note that there is a LOT of money spent on porn. It is a proven market, if Musk wants to pursue it. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/103 "2022-12-08T17:29:37Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > It is a proven market, if Musk wants to pursue it. But mainstream social media has a problem with it. Anyone remember Tumblr and their removal of pornography a few years ago? Here is an explanation from the CEO why the site isn’t going back: > **[Why “Go Nuts, Show Nuts” Doesn’t Work in 2022](https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt/696629352701493248/why-go-nuts-show-nuts-doesnt-work-in-2022)** > > For those who don’t know or remember, Tumblr used to have a policy around porn that was literally “Go nuts, show nuts. Whatever.” That was memorable and hilarious, and for many people, Tumblr both ho… ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/104 "2022-12-09T01:57:38Z")
> **[Twitter sued for targeting women and staff on family leave in layoffs](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/twitter-lawsuit-alleges-musk-layoffs-disproportionately-targeted-women/)** > > Twitter laid off 63% of women in engineering roles compared to 48% of men. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/105 "2022-12-09T02:58:13Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > There are many reasons people pay for porn, not just for custom requests. I’d personally find that discussion interesting if someone wants to start a thread on it. But to avoid a hijack here, I’ll just note that there is a LOT of money spent on porn. It is a proven market, if Musk wants to pursue it. I would totally pay for porn, but only if Musk performs in it. Not that I want to see Musk naked, but rather that I want to see him utterly debased. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/106 "2022-12-10T02:57:30Z")
Elton John has quit Twitter. Musk asked him to stay/return. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2022, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/107 "2022-12-10T06:45:13Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I want to see him utterly debased. Well, there is that video of him doing that little ‘dance’. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/108 "2022-12-10T17:51:32Z")
Scraping up cash where they can: > **[From an industrial-sized pizza oven to a statue of the Twitter bird, here are...](https://www.businessinsider.com/items-auction-elon-musk-twitter-hq-2022-12)** > > Twitter has started to auction off nearly 250 items from its San Francisco office on Tuesday. One sculpture received a bid of $12,000. > From an industrial-sized pizza oven to a statue of the Twitter bird, here are all the weird things you can buy from Elon Musk’s Twitter fire sale… ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/109 "2022-12-10T21:49:57Z")
Never mind; this isn’t the pit thread. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/110 "2022-12-10T21:55:29Z")
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/111 "2022-12-10T22:05:29Z")
Wasn’t eBay one of the companies that got Musk where he is? Why would he be selling stuff on a competing auction site? ---
**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:** [December 10, 2022, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/112 "2022-12-10T22:41:25Z")
Ebay’s merger with Paypal was long after they fired Elmo. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/113 "2022-12-11T19:31:30Z")
> **[Twitter to Increase Tweet Character Limit to 4,000, Elon Musk Says](https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/11/twitter-character-limit-elon-musk/)** > > Twitter will eventually increase its character limit from the current 280 to 4,000, the company's new CEO, Elon Musk, has confirmed on Twitter. ... ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/114 "2022-12-12T15:11:16Z")
Musk makes surprise appearance at Dave Chappelle performance in San Francisco and is booed > **[Elon Musk is booed during surprise appearance at Dave Chappelle's show](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/elon-musk-booed-surprise-appearance-dave-chappelles-show-rcna61236)** > > “It sounds like some of the people you fired are in the audience,” Chappelle said to Musk after the crowd erupted in a mix of cheers and boos Sunday night. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/115 "2022-12-13T03:33:06Z")
[https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/tech/twitter-disbands-trust-and-safety-council/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/tech/twitter-disbands-trust-and-safety-council/index.html) Final line may or may not be the cause of this event, but likely informed it: > Three members of the council resigned in protest last week, [writing in a statement](https://twitter.com/annecollier/status/1600889250761027585) that “contrary to claims by Elon Musk, the safety and wellbeing of Twitter’s users are on the decline.” ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/116 "2022-12-13T05:26:29Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Final line may or may not be the cause of this event, but likely informed it: So Musk disbanded it before it ceased to exist? Brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/117 "2022-12-13T14:55:51Z")
I’m having difficulty understanding the “twitter files” due to how differently the story is being reported on regular news versus the right-wing channels like Fox news. Obviously, we all know the latter has a poor record of being honest about anything, but the frustrating thing is that the regular news isn’t disputing the claims of Fox, they are just talking past each other. Fox et al are saying that the “Biden administration” pressured Twitter to bury stories about Hunter’s laptop. Meanwhile regular news are saying it was the Biden _campaign_ that requested that Twitter take down naked images of Hunter (which are against Twitter’s ToS anyway), not hide any stories. So what about the laptop story? From what I can gather, some execs at Twitter thought the laptop story was so silly they put it behind a warning that you had to click through, and there’s no evidence linking this decision to the Biden campaign. Is that right? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/118 "2022-12-13T15:45:03Z")
I have taken it to mean that the right wing was pissed that private companies refused to re-print their lying propaganda, and want the government to force them to print lies. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/119 "2022-12-13T17:20:08Z")
> **[Some Twitter staff were cut off after missing a Saturday deadline from Elon...](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-staff-cut-off-sign-pledge-emails-weekend-2022-12)** > > Some employees didn't sign Elon Musk's NDA pledge before the Saturday deadline because they weren't checking emails at the weekend, per Platformer. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/120 "2022-12-13T17:28:12Z")
Obviously, they weren’t hard-core. Taking the week-end off? Pfft. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737.md?page=7)