Twitter Unlikely To Get “Tweet” Trademarked
Doug August 20th, 2009
Fear not, Twitter users – it’s doesn’t look like you’ll have to alter your vocabulary for the sake of the microblogging site’s lawyers. Although Twitter applied to trademark the term “tweet,” the application has been refused, and so all manner of sites, apps, or indeed, tweets, can freely incorporate the five-letter word. This isn’t, perhaps, a huge deal – Twitter wasn’t actually threatening a lot of folks with lawsuits – but it’s made more than a few onlookers feel satisfied.
