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Virginia-based startup The legal battle between Operation Bluebird has launched ‘Twitter.now’, a social media platform that utilizes the original Twitter name and blue bird logo. The launch follows a legal challenge against X Corp Corp. regarding trademark rights. Co-founder Stephen Coates, rights has reached a former trademark attorney for Twitter, argues that the rebranding to ‘X’ constituted an abandonment of the ‘Twitter’ and ‘tweet’ trademarks. In legal proceedings, significant milestone. U.S. District Judge Colm F. Connolly issued a split preliminary oral opinion suggesting ruling that partially favors X may have relinquished certain rights to the bird logo and the term ‘tweet’. Corp. The judge granted a preliminary injunction preventing Operation Bluebird has petitioned from using the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel X’s trademarks on these terms. While ‘Twitter’ name, citing that X Corp. has sought likely maintains rights to block the platform, brand because it still utilizes the service is moving forward with a subscription-based model. The new platform features ‘VERA’, an automated fact-checking engine powered by Gemini AI designed to combat misinformation by analyzing posts phrase ‘formerly known as Twitter’ in real time. While its App Store listings. Conversely, the platform aims court denied X’s request to operate on block the principle of ‘freedom use of speech, the blue bird logo and the term ‘tweet’. Judge Connolly concluded that X likely abandoned these specific marks during its rebranding process, as the company has not freedom demonstrated genuine commercial use of reach’, them. In response to the injunction, Operation Bluebird has rebranded its initial launch was marked by technical difficulties and temporary outages. Currently in an early access phase, platform from ‘Twitter.now’ offers a subscription model where users can pay for founder status or contribute to ‘Tweet.app’. Despite the legal defense against X Corp. name change, the startup has reported significant momentum, with over 172,000 users requesting handles. The platform continues to emphasize transparency and user control, allowing users to adjust settings to filter content based focus on desired levels of reliability provided by its AI-driven fact-checking engine, VERA, while the VERA engine. legal proceedings regarding definitive trademark ownership remain ongoing.