Ev WilliamsHow strong is Twitter’s trademark on “tweet”? Should be a generic term — he tweets, against his former interest, on Mastodon.
Brian Dear@ev Twitter applied for a USPTO registration back in 2009. As of Dec 2022 they're still doing filings on the "Tweet" service mark. Now, if Elmo fired all the lawyers, USPTO will eventually say, hey, we waited long enough . . .