Musk has spent plenty of money on whims, perceived insult or for the LOLs before. If he doesn't like this, he could easily spend some cash to "use" the twitter marks for the smallest possible value of "use" that meets the legal standard.
Cpoll•2mo ago
> The only remaining use is that Twitter.com now forwards to X.com, which by itself is generally not enough to constitute ongoing trademark use.
I wonder if X's lawyers can argue that the millions of Twitter-branded share buttons and links all over the internet count.
rogerrogerr•2mo ago
Or all the people who still call it Twitter as an ineffectual act of protest.
hallole•2mo ago
I hope people aren't reading it as silly protesting when I say "Twitter" or "tweet," I just think it sounds way better.
refulgentis•2mo ago
I hope people aren't reading it as silly protesting just because I'm getting old (37) and have 15+ years of neural pathways of daily use of the site to nuke. "tweeted" -> "posted on X.com" is really hard.
wormius•2mo ago
I think it's:
"tweeted" -> "xited"
pronounced "shitted"
LocalH•2mo ago
Not a trademark lawyer, but I wonder if that can actually result in implications of genericization.
Cpoll•2mo ago
It's not genericization in this case, people only call X "Twitter," not all text-based short form social media.
rapnie•1mo ago
I hear people on Mastodon, who undoubtedly came from X, talk about 'tweeting a Mastodon post' instead of posting or 'tooting'.
fwipsy•2mo ago
There's no way this will actually be allowed. Musk is petty, has deep pockets, and giving up the trademark also means losing Twitter.com and all the links to it. This filing must be a publicity stunt.
AlexAplin•2mo ago
For what it is worth, they have communicated that they do eventually plan to retire the domain themselves [1]:
>Re-enrolling your security key will associate them with x[.]com, allowing us to retire the Twitter domain.
ChrisArchitect•2mo ago