Twitter stock is falling as I
write, and I know at least one reason why. It is a thoroughly unstable,
politically loaded environment and not at all the open-minded marketplace of
ideas it pretends to be. Stockholders cannot be happy. In fact, they have every
right to be upset. The day after Christmas Twitter was trading at very nearly
$75 a share. Today it is trading at $31 a share.
For those groomed on Common Core
math, this means that if you had invested $10,000 in December, you would have
already lost more than $5,800.
Although a fan of Facebook, I
never much trusted Twitter and have used it only sparingly. So I was surprised
about a month or so back to find my “Notifications” box cluttered with cryptic
messages that seemed to be attacking me from the right.
A little naïve, I sent a polite
email to the sender asking what he was hoping to accomplish and received a
snippy, cryptic response in return.
Doing just a little digging, I
stumbled into a sad, nasty little underworld of whose existence I had been only
dimly aware. Read more at
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