I think the blog post actually makes things more confusing: "Regarding the use of the word Twitter in projects, we are a bit more wary although there are some exceptions here as well."
So, what are these exceptions? Does it come down to the projects @ev and @biz particularly like? What if it's twit*** which obviously isn't using their trademark but uses the same base (heck, by that logic @leolaporte should be on my case)? It would seem odd that mine is the only site to have received a letter. If the primary concern was the twitter bird then why is the new version an issue? When I was on the phone I think he said he was waiting to hear back from California, so there is more than a passing chance that it was personal opinion of a guy in London instead of Twitter's own people. As has been said, some proper clarification and a bit more transparency with the community would go a really long way here (although are Twitter now at the stage they can't comment on legal matters until the lawyers check things over?) On Aug 14, 12:59 am, Dewald Pretorius <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 13, 8:44 pm, Goblin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It would be nice to hear from the horses mouth if all the "twit*/ > > twitter*" apps were to use "tweet" instead, would that sort the issue > > out. > > Doesn't this blog post [1] from the "big horse's mouth" already settle > that question? > > [1]http://blog.twitter.com/2009/07/may-tweets-be-with-you.html > > It is also interesting that Biz wrote favorable blog posts about > TwitterCounter [2] and Twitterific [3]. Wonder how that will impact > anything, if at all. > > [2]http://blog.twitter.com/2008/07/follower-stats-by-twittercounter.html > [3]http://blog.twitter.com/2008/06/congratulations-twitterrific.html > > Dewald
