Twitter wins battle over ownership of "tweet" trademark - Telegraph

Executives at the firm said they had resolved a long-running legal dispute over ownership of the term by US advertising company Twittad. Twittad allows a network of 27,000 Twitter users to be paid to tweet advertisements from their private accounts. The firm was the first to lay claim to the word “tweet” in 2008 when it trademarked the phase "Let Your Ad Meet Tweets". It later argued that because Twitter's own users had come up with...