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Re: Oneok Sues Twitter For Trademark Infringement [Update: Dropped]

Dorothysur — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:06:14 -0000

In my opinion, Twitter is enough to squeeze more money from business and celebrities, and then click on one of the blogs, Joe focused, to add to your profile.

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thedp — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:32:51 -0000

Idiots

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Elad Kehat — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:08:22 -0000

Yet another company with trigger happy lawyers who feel they have to justify their paychecks. Couldn't they just ask Twitter to suspend that account - before filing the lawsuit?

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JMRL — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:23:02 -0000

fundamentally networks social are forced to have users do more next year to true to allow the use of marks in the niks records do not believe?

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Steven Grech — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:51:42 -0000

If the adverts don't interfere with Joe Blogs tweets and are related to the actual persons subject content then fine - just like GMail does i.e. discreet advertising at the top of your mail. There's no need to get into lecturing on hosting costs etc...there's a fine line between monetisation and user experience Hugh.

Anyway, from a business model perspective, [my opinion] Twitter are more likely to squeeze out more cash from companies and celebrities rather then Joe Blogs clicking on a targeted add within their profile. Period.

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Charles LeRette — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:27:51 -0000

Why should it be free of advertising? It's free. Do you seriously believe that you should have some kind of right to use a free service but expect it to be paid for by someone else? Do you have any clue what it costs to run a site like Twitter? Their employees aren't volunteers and no one is giving them gratis bandwidth.

If you use a service you should either pay for it or put up with a little advertising. Period.

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karasma — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:43:38 -0000

Stan - Thanks for staying on top of this. This is a prime example of how presenting legal action can be sufficient in order to protect your reputation.

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Jack Yan — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:28:16 -0000

What a waste of time, suing Twitter when a simple email to the company would have solved the matter and kept everyone’s blood pressure down. Talk about overreacting, but I suppose in Oneokland, this is normal behaviour. Most people in most civilized countries would sort the matter out like adults.

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Jon Keaty — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:22:07 -0000

Unfortunately a company has a legal obligation to be seen to defend its trademarks otherwise they will lose them - so I'm sure OneOK(TM) know this is a pointless waste of time but they have no choice.

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YOU∆REON▼ISU∆L — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:05:39 -0000

Srsly?

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xposure — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:57:02 -0000

I can't imagine this succeeding, the implications are massive.

I do wonder about the companies that do this, or is it just the layers earning a few $$ for themselves?

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Dave Z — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:52:33 -0000

How does Twitter decide who a well known individual (or site) is? I've got more followers than at least one verified account... But maybe since I don't tweet/blog exclusively about Web 2.0, I'm locked out.

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Jonha Revesencio — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:47:35 -0000

OneOk should have sued the ones that made the accounts and not Twitter.

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Steven Grech — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:44:42 -0000

"Twitter has other plans when it comes to business accounts" - this is one of the key areas they need to monetise and fast.

Twitter is becoming or has become a great marketing tool. Keep it free / free of advertising for the general public but charge companies and celebrities to use it - Simple!

Re: Oneok suing Twitter - just shows that this company doesn't get/understand the open nature of social media - numpties...