Flushing Twitter down the sink

This was the headline in a Raw Story quoting a top news tech site, TechCrunch. It is a congruent conflation of “flushed down the tubes/toilet” and “down the drain/sink”, both meaning to have failed. Here is the link:

https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-twitter-2659673403/

Many thanks to Tom Justice, who spotted this one and pondered poetically that the author might have been thinking of “flushing Twitter down the shitter”. Brilliant!