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Operation Bluebird launches twitter.now as paid Twitter-branded social network amid ongoing trademark dispute with X
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Startup Operation Bluebird launched twitter.now, a paid social media platform using the "Twitter" brand, the same week X served Nitter a cease-and-desist letter.
The launch directly tests whether the "Twitter" trademark is fair game after Elon Musk rebranded X, with the legal case ongoing and no judgment made. For engineers, twitter.now is a new standalone platform requiring paid sign-up, not a frontend for viewing X content without an account like Nitter was.
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Operation Bluebird launched twitter.now as a standalone paid social network not affiliated with X Corp, charging $20 for founder early access and $40 for the Fighter tier.
X's lawyers served Nitter a cease-and-desist the same week, but twitter.now does not surface X content and instead requires users to sign up and post on its own platform.
The trademark dispute remains unresolved; Operation Bluebird filed to claim the Twitter trademark last year, while X asserts that "Twitter never left and continues to be exclusively owned by X Corp."
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