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Does anyone actually believe they will be pursuing companies using tweet or twit in URLs?

• shabda 17y ago
  Yes. Consider this hypothetical scenario. Twitter builds image sharing as part of twitter.com at say twity.com. But twitpic.com is beating them all the way(better implementation, user inertia whatever). Is it hard to see someone at twitter, try to use their trademark to beat them? [Edit] Also in their response Twitter says, > As part of this support, we encourage developers of new applications and services built using Twitter APIs to invent original branding for their projects rather than use our marks, logos, or look and feel. And says nothing on whether using tweet in names is acceptable by them. If they don't mind, wgy not say so?
  • jonursenbach 17y ago
    I honestly cannot see Twitter "building" anything new outside of their current feature set. If they are going to add a native image service, they're going to buy one of the current popular services (twitpic, yfrog, etc.) and integrate that. Come on, they had to buy a search company to give people the ability to search their index, so the precedent is certainly there.
• aj 17y ago
  Autocrattic (www.automattic.com) already does this for wordpress and wp in urls. So yeah it is a possible scenario
• dcurtis 17y ago
  "Twit" is a trademark owned by Leo Laporte, and if you use it in your name he will come knocking.