caveat: ianal

how does this help users?  Doesn't this just mean that use of the term
"tweet" will be in the hands of either Peter F Wingard., Launchability,
Inc., or Sean Thomas Callahan?  why is that better than in twitter's hand?

Sean Callahan's entry, tweetphoto, looks mightily similar to twitter in
color and form.

Joseph Cheek
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Sam Johnston wrote:
> [snip]
>   
> That's too bad for Twitter but it's great news for the rest of the
> community as it's one less tool for locking in Twitter's rapidly
> growing microblogging monopoly. People do use the word "tweet"
> generically (including with non-Twitter services) and if Twitter, Inc.
> were successful in removing it from the public lexicon then we could
> all suffer in the long run.
>   

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