Obiter has taken a perverse pleasure in watching people make self-important statements about leaving Twitter (X), overlooking the unfortunate truth that nobody cares either way where they choose to share their pithy shafts of insight.

The slow migration of lawyers and academics to the (for now) more temperate and bot-less utopia of BlueSky has accelerated in the last week. But one group determined to stick around for Twitter’s last knocking appears to be law firms. Vanishingly few have even opened a BlueSky account, let alone given up their X/Twitter following (quite what they get out of either, Obiter is not sure).

Is this a sign that the profession is secretly supporting Twitter owner Elon Musk and his increasingly, er, bracing political statements? Probably not. Obiter supposes that risk-averse firms are waiting to see how this BlueSky thing works out before they commit to a permanent transfer. Still, we can imagine plenty of social media managers hovering with their fingers over the deactivate button, waiting for someone else to go first and then joining the exodus.

The way X seems to be headed, the law firms may well be the last ones to turn out the light.

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