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Comment by randyrand | Hacker News Reader

Is this referring to the new Twitter company that recently launched (https://twitter.now)?

If not, then this is just going to lead to confusion.

I don’t think there will be any confusion. Clearly this is not referring to this random new Twitter thing you’ve linked to that most people have never heard of, it is referring to Twitter the previously global piece of software with hundreds of millions of former users.

Well, I was confused. New Twitter got big coverage today [1] and then more Twitter related news on HN today too.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/new-twitter-laun...

there is no chance that people would assume this is about a startup that's about to get nuked by copyright cease and desists

First off I think you mean trademark, secondly you're allowed to just ignore a C&D, thirdly your trademark is invalid if you don't use it so Elon might not actually have a trademark on Twitter any more

Who in their right mind would take that site seriously?

Are you talking about Twitter or X?

Whatever twitter.now is which is neither.

It's Twitter. It legally owns the trademark "Twitter", the bird logo and the color blue. Musk really screwed up that one huh? Under UDRP rules it'll be pretty hard for them to seize their rightful domain name twitter.com, but maybe they'll manage.

Their USPTO is still pending, so we'll see. But yes legally they have good grounds to continue DBA as Twitter.

I guess I couldn't believe it. The LLM copy on that homepage is unbearable and amateurish.

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