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Operation Bluebird loses bid to re-claim Twitter title
Mashable • • business
Key Points:
- A Delaware District Court judge ruled that Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X, which abandoned the "tweet" term and blue bird logo, has made both elements available for others to use, though the use of "Twitter" in a name was prohibited to avoid confusion.
- Operation Bluebird, a startup, initially launched a platform called Twitter.now using the dropped iconography and tweet concept, but rebranded to Tweet.app following the court decision, adopting the tagline "The square is back. And this time, it's yours."
- The startup criticized Musk's rebranding efforts, claiming that despite the change, users still refer to posts as tweets, and they aim to rebuild trust around the original elements Musk discarded.
- Tweet.app is not yet live but has garnered over 170,000 early subscribers offering paid membership tiers, raising questions about whether it will become a significant competitor to X.com or face further legal challenges.
