Get the latest tech news

BlueSky thinking by lawyers amid mass exodus from X

Social media-loving lawyers have been moving en masse this week from X to BlueSky, with one chambers saying Elon Musk’s site “contradicts” its values.

BlueSky is a social app that only went live to the public earlier this year but has reported a huge spike in new users from the UK this week, with ‘legal Twitter’ moving in large numbers – some while retaining their X accounts but others ditching them altogether. He said it was “no longer possible to continue [on X] without feeling like an under siege resistance fighter, trying to preserve humour, conversation, raising matters of personal and public interest, and frankly keeping self-respect, in the face of what has become a brittle, facile, deceitful, stupidly anger-driven culture that won’t leave you alone”. But as long as there are charlatans lying about the law and undermining our justice system, I’ll be here, banging my tiny lawsplaining drum, churning out Legal Live Tweets and laying some truth on yo sorry asses.”

Get the Android app