{"id":37378,"date":"2025-11-02T04:31:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T04:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/elon-musk-comes-clean-about-the-sink-in-his-viral-twitter-takeover-pic\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T04:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T04:31:39","slug":"elon-musk-comes-clean-about-the-sink-in-his-viral-twitter-takeover-pic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/elon-musk-comes-clean-about-the-sink-in-his-viral-twitter-takeover-pic\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk comes clean about the sink in his viral Twitter takeover pic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/690629ae599d46a4ccc14b43?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Elon Musk carrying a sink at the former Twitter headquarters in 2023.\"\/><figcaption>Elon Musk carrying a sink at the former Twitter headquarters in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>-\/Twitter account of Elon Musk\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Elon Musk shared the details behind a viral video of him carrying a sink at Twitter&#039;s HQ from 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Musk said his security team struggled to purchase a sink from a local store.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;It&#039;s just rare that somebody wants a sink for sink&#039;s sake,&quot; Musk said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elon Musk isn&#039;t afraid to commit to the bit.<\/p>\n<p>One day before he officially acquired Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, he shared a video on his account that showed him carrying a sink into the social media platform&#039;s former headquarters in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Entering Twitter HQ \u2014 let that sink in!,&quot; Musk wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Entering Twitter HQ \u2013 let that sink in! pic.twitter.com\/D68z4K2wq7<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 26, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>During Friday&#039;s episode of the &quot;All-In&quot; podcast, Musk said that the video, which now has 1.2 million likes and 202,000 reposts, almost didn&#039;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Well, I think the store was confused because my security team was asking for any kind of sink, and normally, people wouldn&#039;t ask for any kind of sink because you need a sink that fits in your bathroom or connects to a certain kind of plumbing,&quot; Musk said. &quot;So, they&#039;re trying to ask, &#039;What kind of faucets do you want?&#039; No, I just wanted a sink.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Musk said the store almost didn&#039;t sell them a sink out of concern.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The store was confused that we just wanted a sink and didn&#039;t care what the sink connected to,&quot; Musk said. &quot;They were, like, almost not letting us buy the sink because they thought maybe we&#039;d buy the wrong sink.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#039;s just rare that somebody wants a sink for sink&#039;s sake,&quot; Musk said.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Musk and X did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter, now known as X, underwent major changes after Musk completed his takeover, including layoffs, office closures, and the discontinuation of the original blue checkmark verification feature.<\/p>\n<p>Another significant shift happened this March when Musk announced that his AI company, xAI, acquired X in an all-stock deal.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;xAI and X&#039;s futures are intertwined,&quot; Musk wrote. &quot;Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent. This combination will unlock immense potential by blending xAI&#039;s advanced AI capability and expertise with X&#039;s massive reach.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Grok, a generative chatbot that debuted on the social media platformin November 2023, is just one example of how Musk is encouraging synergy.<\/p>\n<p>The chatbot, powered by a large language model with the same name, can answer users&#039; queries on X and in Tesla vehicles. It also has a stand-alone website.<\/p>\n<p>Although Musk has shared plans to expand Grok&#039;s capabilities, the system has encountered some challenges. In July, the chatbot faced criticism after it shared several antisemitic posts, prompting xAI to apologize for its &quot;horrific behavior.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;After careful investigation, we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the @grok bot,&quot; the company wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred days before xAI debuted Grok 4, the latest iteration of the chatbot.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk carrying a sink at the former Twitter headquarters in 2022. -\/Twitter account of Elon Musk\/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk shared the details behind a viral video of him carrying a sink at Twitter&#039;s HQ from 2022. Musk said his security team struggled to purchase a sink from a local store. &quot;It&#039;s just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}