“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain

mrweasel 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I can't figure out if renaming Twitter to X is the stupidest branding decision I've ever encountered or if it's bloody brilliant.

Every time Danish media talks about X, they say "The social media X". So X in itself is completely unrecognizable, you actively have to mention that you're talking about the social media platform. That's is however also rather genius, because now the connection between X and "social media" is strengthened every time it's mentioned.

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weinzierl 44 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Probably not many do remember, but before this logo Twitter had a different bird logo until the company was already quite big.

If I remember correctly this logo was allegedly bought from a royalty free image platform and Twitter had no exclusive rights to it. Also there was a little outcry that the original artist just received the royalty free platform usual ridiculously small one time payment.

EDIT: The one I remember is the second one in the timeline image from the following (unfortunately ad infested) article, so apparently it was not the first one they had.

https://www.afaqs.com/news/digital/has-musk-gone-too-far-wit...

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nolok 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

> Also there was a little outcry that the original artist just received the royalty free platform usual ridiculously small one time payment.

I mean, if I tell you I'm to sell something to you for 5 dollars and you will be allowed to do this or that with it, and you give me the 5 dollars and then do this or that, it's a bit ridiculous to then have an "outcry" that you were successfull at doing this or that so you owe me more.

Not trying to offend but artists willing to make bird logo for cheap are a dime a dozen, which is why those site exists in the first place, and they didn't care about which one exactly which is why they went on that site to buy it; it's ot like there was any vile or unfair action being done there.

	▲	bsoqk 37 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Not all outcries have to be entertained.

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blfr an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The core reason to enforce trademarks is not to fluff the corporation that holds it but to let the public be confident in the name. So the trademark should hold for as long as a reasonable person can be confused by the new Twitter regardless of people's dislike towards Elon.

I may be biased because I still go to Twitter via twitter.com.

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parl_match an hour ago | parent [-]

I stopped going. Between the spam and the racist unmoderated AI slop cannon that is discovery there, what's the point

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solarkraft an hour ago | parent [-]

I don’t even open twitter/x links anymore because the page is so unusable.

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shevy-java 38 minutes ago | parent [-]

Same here. There is always the "log in" nagging pop-up. But I will never log in again to the right-arm-gesture guy, so this is just time wasted for me.

We could need some decentralized way to share "tweets" though. Not linked to greedy billionaires.

	▲	flawn 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If you want to share tweets from X, there is exactly that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283

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MatthewWilkes an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is it accurate to describe this as the public domain? I would expect that the bird logo still enjoys copyright protection, independent from its status as a trademark.

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Animats 13 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Trademarks are use it or lose it. OLDSMOBILE, for example, is a cancelled General Motors trademark for automobiles.[1] No cars sold, no trademark.

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Rygian an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Decision from the judge "Issuance of the injunction precluding Bluebird's use of the Twitter-formative marks is contingent on X Corp.'s posting of a $500,000 bond."

Both X Corp. and Bluebird have asked to go to court on Nov 2027.

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shevy-java 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A small, but nonetheless strategically important, defeat for the billionaire Elon "my right arm constantly twitches into a straight arm" musky Musk.

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throw3212 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Twitter has become a racists hangout place

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whatsupdog 26 minutes ago | parent [-]

I remember when people were called racist just for asking more border control. What's the new definition now?

My point is that this term has been used so loosely, it has lost its meaning. Racist used to be someone who really despised black/brown people. Now every Trump voter is apparently a racist.

	▲	johneth 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> My point is that this term has been used so loosely, it has lost its meaning. Have you taken a look at X/Twitter lately? There is a lot of out and out racism. Don't give the benefit of the doubt that it's just people who want "border control".