Yeah i can see it getting a couple of thousand people on board then stagnating like bluesky
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Damn if it only fediverse user snagged the domain. It will be fun watching Elon seeth about it
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I'm already doing well here so i'll pass.
Ah yes, just what the world needs: another Twitter.
I did always think it was stupid that he bought a site with pretty great branding (twitter/tweets/the bird graphics etc) and immediately got rid of most of that branding.
The worst part for me personally (and maybe nobody else) is I love the band the xx but wearing their merch these days makes it seem like I maybe support anything musk based.
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That's pretty funny. And the trust thing is a cool idea (devils in the details though). If they committed to federation I'd be onboard.
“We are a small company, we have investors, and we have a product,” Stephen Coates, one of Operation Bluebird’s cofounders, told Ars.
A new and notable feature is the automated fact-checking tool, a Gemini-based “veracity engine for real-time analysis” (“Vera” for short), which runs on every tweet.
Nuff said
Yeah. Not falling for that.
hahaha, this is the first thing I though after the idiot changed the iconic name to nothing, go twitter! (no, I'm not joining bluebird, but I like the trust threshold idea)
If not decentralized, it's a no go...
Oh just want I want, another microblogging platform which algorithms to tell me what to think and what to be upset about.
Should've been a Nitter instance
A new and notable feature is the automated fact-checking tool, a Gemini-based “veracity engine for real-time analysis” (“Vera” for short), which runs on every tweet.
oh wow i can’t see how this could go wrong! /s
the whole site honestly reeks of vibecoded in an afternoon too. still extremely funny tho, i hope they win their case
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Priceless
However, in an April 2026 hearing, US District Court Judge Colm Connolly gave a tentative ruling from the bench that X seemed to have given up intellectual property claims over the word “tweet” and the Twitter bird logo—and possibly even on the word “Twitter” as well. The judge has yet to issue a written order.
For Coates, who serves as Twitter’s new general counsel and previously worked in the same role during the pre-Musk era, the judge’s words were enough to serve as a green light.
Not sure if we really need more social media.
Twitter, formally X, formally Twitter