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> 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'
by Cpoll 10mo 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 10mo agoOr all the people who still call it Twitter as an ineffectual act of protest.
- hallole 10mo agoI hope people aren't reading it as silly protesting when I say "Twitter" or "tweet," I just think it sounds way better.
- refulgentis 10mo agoI 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 10mo agoI think it's: "tweeted" -> "xited" pronounced "shitted"
- LocalH 10mo agoNot a trademark lawyer, but I wonder if that can actually result in implications of genericization.