Comments on: Tweet.me: What A Lawsuit This Buyer Should Prepare For!

By: paul

paul — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:45:41 +0000

Hey! Nice job here! I’ll be dropping by from time to time

By: Chris Desouza

Chris Desouza — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:23:44 +0000

Expressing opinion is not the same as crapping unsubstantiated fluff. Takes away the credibility you are so hard at work to build.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:51:14 +0000

While I appreciate the loads of comments, I have taken some offense to the last one by Gerry, but I can see where he is coming from, so I want to explain something to start off with. The reason that I blog is for fun and to let out my opinion. You don’t see loads of advertisements on this blog for a reason. Yes, there are some to make ends meet, but this blog was not created with the intent to get traffic and profit, as many blogs are. So any claims, stories, or opinions I post are for the sole purpose of telling others my opinion on things in the domaining world.

To everyone else, I am fairly reasonable, and I am VERY open to others opinions. People convince me to do something else I originally wouldn’t have done on a daily basis. But I stick by the things that I say for a reason, and I don’t just follow along with the crowd. Not to say any of you are doing so, but I don’t want to be accused of being stubborn.

@tweetdotme – Listen, I blog about subjects I find interesting. I have done my research on intellectual property, trademark infringement, the ACPA, and many other aspects of internet law. While I don’t know every detail to a deal, that shouldn’t stop me from blogging my opinion from what I know. If everyone knew every detail to every single transaction, deal, situation, etc. then blogging wouldn’t be interesting. As I see it, you are the owner of Tweet.me and I didn’t make you or your domain look bad. I just blogged about a situation that I found to be interesting, that your normal unfriendly big business might sue for. Twitter happens to be really nice.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:18:52 +0000

Give a person blog and they stick their foot in their mouth.

A couple of things you accomplished by posting such absurd claims:

Traffic
Dunce Cap

Sticking by your claims does not make them right. Just makes you a bigger fool and a bigger target.

@geoff – even after someone from Twitter stated it is okay, what in the hell is left to debate? The author sticking by his claim? Or you indecision?

By: tweetdotme

tweetdotme — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:56:41 +0000

@admin…. NO, I believe you didn’t read my comment clearly. You don’t know whats going on behind the scenes. Twitter knows what the domain is going to be used for and doesn’t have a problem with. I have the email to prove it. So stop writing about subjects you obviously don’t know!

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:33:45 +0000

“Tweet” could be an infantile slang meaning “treat” as in “Uncle Fred’s gonna tweet (treat) us to an ice cweam cone.”

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:16:46 +0000

I personally wouldn’t say either side, the author or you guys, is right or wrong, it’s really just a matter of debate…

By: Patrick McDermott

Patrick McDermott — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:03:13 +0000

“There are certainly many applications out there that include “Twitter”
as part of their name, but we prefer that you not do so. “Twit”,
“Tweet”, etc. are all fine.”

That is a quote from Alex Payne, a developer at Twitter from the link you were given above..

Tweet is fine to use and that includes using a keyword before or after.

It’s absurd to think he was referring to just using “tweet” alone.

And of course tweet will be used to refer to twitter.

The objection is to using the “Twitter” trademarked name in any application, etc.
not authorized by Twitter.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:12:47 +0000

With all due respect to all of your comments, I am sticking with my original statement. Please tell me how else the term Tweet Me can be used other than in a twitter reference. If the domain just had Tweet.com or something similar to that, then all of your comments might be right, but the domain says Tweet Me, which I could only imagine to reference Twitter. I am not letting words fly out of my mouth, you just need to read the article closely. If I didn’t write it clearly to explain that TWEET ME was what I was talking about, than I apologize.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:39:07 +0000

Twitter holds the TM for Twitter, and others have already had TM’s for the term Tweet. aka TweetDeck. Twitter them self have said Twit and Tweet are “ok” to use. http://tinyurl.com/qkudxb Comment #4 . Thanks to Reece for the link.