Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Thanks to Microsoft

Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha... by omoikane on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @12:45AM (#36857993)

If a complete rebranding to X actually happens, I wonder if someone else is allowed to take over the Twitter brand.

But I suspect what will happen is people will continue to call it Twitter and the X name will not stick.

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Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha... by romanovcode on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @01:22AM (#36858272)

> But I suspect what will happen is people will continue to call it Twitter and the X name will not stick.

Me too, the problem is that you cannot convert X to a verb. "They x'ed this and that" sounds much dumber than "They tweeted this and that".

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Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha... by hef19898 on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @03:39AM (#36859179)

After "Let that sink in", we have "I X'ed Twitter".

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Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha... by sam_bristow on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:12AM (#36859421)

"The company formerly know as Twitter".

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Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha... by majewsky on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:55AM (#36859730)

How about "the app formerly known as Twitter", to make the acronym read nicely? I think I'm indeed going to start calling it TAFKAT. :)

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Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha... by rchaud on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @08:21AM (#36861203)

I think you're right, HN and news websites are the only places that Facebook is referenced as "Meta", and that's been the name for a couple of years now.

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Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha... by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @08:54AM (#36861512)

You mean "Facebook" as a company name, presumably? Isn't the social network still called "Facebook"?

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