Are you continue to pining for the glory days of Twitter, when tweeting was a broadly understood verb inside common dialog, and retweets really meant one thing?
Nicely, Twitter, and its related logos, might nonetheless make a comeback, although not by way of Elon and his “every part app” ardour venture.
As reported by Ars Technica, a Virginia startup calling itself “Operation Bluebird” introduced earlier this week that it has filed a proper petition with the US Patent and Trademark Workplace to cancel X Company’s logos of the phrases “Twitter” and “tweet,” as a result of X basically not utilizing them, and abandoning the earlier Twitter model.
A founding father of the group, Stephen Coates, posted on LinkedIn concerning the request earlier this week, explaining that:
“After 12 months of quiet work at Operation Bluebird, we’re stepping out of stealth mode to share one thing daring: we’ve filed a petition to cancel the TWITTER trademark and new purposes for TWITTER and TWEET. This isn’t about nostalgia. It’s about repairing what broke — as a result of the general public sq. is price preventing for.”
If it’s profitable in its bid, Operation Bluebird is then aiming to launch its personal model of what Twitter was, below the URL www.twitter.new, which might be a primary step in the direction of restoring Twitter to its former state:
And as you’ll be able to see, persons are already signing as much as reserve a deal with on the brand new Twitter, although the chance of it really succeeding as an actual social media platform is fairly low, whereas the probabilities of Elon giving up these previous Twitter logos with out a struggle are additionally marginal at greatest.
Although he might not have a alternative. Operation Bluebird was based by trademark attorneys, one among whom really labored for Twitter up to now, and their declare relies on the truth that X is not making use of those logos. It ought to due to this fact haven’t any authorized declare to them, which is the loophole that Operation Bluebird is seeking to exploit to get management of the Twitter IP.
X Corp will basically have to show that it’s nonetheless utilizing these phrases inside its enterprise. In any other case, it might lose them, whether or not it likes it or not, which might then allow the Operation Bluebird group to launch an precise Twitter different, each in identify and in course of.
Although, once more, it’s extremely uncertain that Elon would enable this to occur, at the least not with out some vital, and sure long-running authorized stand-off, which may render the venture out of date both manner.
Musk has repeatedly demonstrated a pettiness in his enterprise dealings, spending billions to focus on individuals who’ve wronged him, and pushing to keep up management of all parts of principally something stemming from his tasks.
A very good instance on this case is Musk’s efforts to throttle hyperlinks to exterior websites from X, significantly to publishers that he personally dislikes, as a result of he needs to maintain the eye on X itself, not siphon that off to different suppliers. Musk sees X as being far more priceless than these exterior publishers and websites respect, and as such, he’s explored a number of methods to make enterprise pay to maintain getting visitors from his app.
Musk has additionally threatened authorized motion towards Meta over the event of Threads, which has copied lots of X’s key options, whereas he’s additionally explored authorized motion towards different replicas that he sees as stealing from him.
That might counsel that he’s not going to surrender the Twitter logos with out a struggle, whether or not he’s utilizing them or not, and with a strong group of legal professionals on his facet, Operation Bluebird might be in for a struggle.
And even whether it is profitable, scaling a brand new social platform, even with the Twitter branding, might be troublesome.
As such, I doubt that this venture will turn into an even bigger consideration in social media circles, however it’s one other one to observe, and it might find yourself bringing Twitter again, albeit in a special type.
Would that be sufficient to get you in? Would the return of the chicken elicit sufficient nostalgic response to spark a complete new social platform ecosystem?
Should you’re in any respect excited, it might be price heading to www.twitter.new to order your deal with.
