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Twitpic Shutting Down Over Trademark Dispute

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what's-in-a-name? dept.

First time accepted submitter exiguus writes As of September 25th Twitpic will be no more. Twitter, allegedly, has threatened to deny them access to their API. Noah Everett said "Unfortunately we do not have the resources to fend off a large company like Twitter to maintain our mark which we believe whole heartedly is rightfully ours. Therefore, we have decided to shut down Twitpic." Resources will be made available to users to download their videos and photos, but a date when that function will be available has not been made available. "We'll let everyone know when this feature is live in the next few days."

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  1. Re:Wait, what? by binarylarry · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah Twitpic could have just changed their name??

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  2. Re:Wait, what? by Cid+Highwind · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Their business plan was "get acquired by Twitter", and that's not happening.

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  3. Re:Wait, what? by Alrescha · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Apparently, all they have to do is stop trying to trademark the name (which is clearly derived from Twitter). That's it.

    A.

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  4. Pretty blatant trademark violation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I honestly thought they were associated with Twitter. Their name is clearly trying to imply that they are, so this is a textbook case of why trademark law exists. Anyway, as another poster said, they could have just changed their name, so this is probably just them taking an excuse to shut down after realizing this wasn't a viable business anyway.

  5. Wait, TwitPic != Twitter? by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You mean they were different companies? Huh.

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