For a company that has let its API run free and wild (and that’s been a good thing), you wonder why they would spend time focused on protecting “Tweet” as opposed to, say, creating a business model of value-added services.
In any event, what I really want to know is how much Twitter is going to have to acquire to buy www.tweet.com.
The Web site appears to be focused on birds but it’s hard not to get the feeling the content is just a placeholder until someone comes along to buy the URL. The URL is owned by Mrs Jello, LLC, and registered through domainadmin@exoticdomains.net.
For more on Twitter and its Tweet obsession, check out TechCrunch.
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Twitter: What’s Next; the Purchase of Tweet.com?
You’d think Twitter would have better things to do than deciding to make become a little more protection of its trademark over the word “Tweet” while promising it has “no intention of “going after the wonderful applications and services that use the word in their name when associated with Twitter”.
For a company that has let its API run free and wild (and that’s been a good thing), you wonder why they would spend time focused on protecting “Tweet” as opposed to, say, creating a business model of value-added services.
In any event, what I really want to know is how much Twitter is going to have to acquire to buy www.tweet.com.
The Web site appears to be focused on birds but it’s hard not to get the feeling the content is just a placeholder until someone comes along to buy the URL. The URL is owned by Mrs Jello, LLC, and registered through domainadmin@exoticdomains.net.
For more on Twitter and its Tweet obsession, check out TechCrunch.