Interesting. Could X lose the Twitter trademark?
"A Virginia startup calling itself “Operation Bluebird” announced this week that it has filed a formal petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office, asking the federal agency to cancel X Corporation’s trademarks of the words “Twitter” and “tweet” since X has allegedly abandoned them."
As for https://www.twitter.new, this would certainly be more interesting, at least to me, if they were building it on ActivityPub, or even ATProto, but I don't see any indication of that being the case.
Either way, best of luck to them, I suppose!
@stefan Yeah. Although funny at first glance, this filing probably doesn't have legs in a legal perspective. And as you say, twitter.new doesn't seem to be much other than... same old.
The Twitter/X implosion was great in that it showed a lot of people fundamental vulnerabilities in these walled garden networks. Trying to just replicate the same thing, to the point of filing for the name — sounds like somebody is walking into the same trap twice.
