It finally dawned on me a few days after GETTR launched that it wasn't saying "Get Her" or "Gutter" but rather Get Twitter. GETTR got a lot of tweeters involved in its launch because it claimed that GETTR users...
"Past the point of no return, the final threshold, the bridge is crossed so stand and watch it burn, we've passed the point of no return." -- Phantom Of The Opera For the past seven years we've discussed the fact...
The handwriting is on the wall in neon that Elon Musk simply does not understand the nature of the beast that he just paid $44 billion for. One of his latest ideas is to charge owners of verified checkmarks...
Another interesting and provocative morning over at the SCOTUS. The court started out hearing a case regarding the issue whether Donald Trump could legally block his legions of detractors on Twitter or if that was a violation of free...
Hello Darkness, my old friend. It's going to get very black indeed over at Twitter when/if Elon Musk actually takes hold of the reins and reinstates Donald Trump. We knew it was coming but knowing something is coming and...
This was easily predicted, all of it. Friday morning arrives. Elon Musk fired his executives yesterday afternoon and today is his first full day as owner of Twitter. It was expected that his first act would be to restore...
Cast your mind back to the mists of October. Donald Trump had a killer day on the New York Stock Exchange when his social media SPAC quadruped in price without showing a dollar in cash flow.  If you didn't read...
I never found corporate law a particularly exciting subject, but there was never a case until now where a billionaire autocrat was looking to take over one of the two social media goliaths on the planet and become the...
"A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth has put on his shoes." -- Mark Twain It's been quite the morning on X, which is what's left of Twitter. Having a blue check mark was supposed to...
There is some real sickness in the body politic of America. It is pervasive, pernicious, and profound. It is also extremely sad. An online social media site, The Donald, is running commentary from Trump loving MAGAs and it is...

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