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Twitter Shot Down on 'Tweet' Trademark

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 20, 2009 1:09 PM CDT

(Newser) – When Twitter founder Biz Stone said last month the company was trying to trademark the word “tweet,” the internet flew into a tizzy, worried that the word would be closed off to independent developers. But they needn’t have worried, writes blogger Sam... Read full story »

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