Twitter Disputes Company's Use of Word 'Tweet'

The microblogging service Twitter has suspended ad network Twittad and taken the company to court over the use of the word 'tweets' in its "Let your ad meet tweets" service. Twittad was awarded a trademark on the name in 2008, but Twitter argues that the trademark should be invalidated because the word Tweet was already associated with Twitter by then.

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