New Twitter rebrands to Tweet.app after court’s double-edged ruling

September 4, 2026 · 5:52 pm 2 sources

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• Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now
  TechCrunch · September 4, 2026 17:52
  A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.
• New Twitter rebrands to Tweet.app after court's double-edged ruling
  Engadget · September 5, 2026 16:13
  A federal court decided that "Twitter" was off-limits, but tweet and the bird logo were fair game.