To be fair Goblin, reading the letter they only ask you to make
clear you're not affiliated. Not change the domain.
However, point taken it's confusing.
Take Twitterific's page: http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific
That bird looks familiar and the blue and there is no disclaimer.
I keep wanting apply everyday logic, but in the legal world it just
seems to go out of the window :-)
Now I really must do some coding :-)
On 14 Aug 2009, at 01:08, Goblin wrote:
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 <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Aug 13, 8:44 pm, Goblin <stu...@abovetheinternet.org> 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
