Angosat-2 goes commercial for startups and ISPs in Angola
On Techpoint Digest, we discuss Angosat-2's commercial launch for startups and ISPs, Ule Homes' efforts to solve Nigeria's rent problem, and X's lawsuit against a startup attempting to revive Twitter.
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Victoria from Techpoint here,<br />
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Angosat-2 goes commercial for startups and ISPs in Angola<br />
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Ule Homes wants to fix Nigeria’s rent problem<br />
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X sues startup trying to revive Twitter<br />
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X sues startup trying to revive Twitter<br />
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Photo by Bastian Riccardi on Unsplash <br />
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X is back in court over a name Elon Musk once said he was done with. The company has sued a US startup, Operation Bluebird, for trying to bring back Twitter as a separate social platform. What started as a trademark challenge has now turned into a full-blown legal fight over who really owns one of tech’s most famous brand names.<br />
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What this means is simple: X is no longer acting like Twitter is dead. By suing, the company is effectively saying the Twitter name still matters, still has value, and still belongs to it — even after years of insisting the platform had fully moved on to X.<br />
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Here’s how we got here: Operation Bluebird recently asked US trademark regulators to cancel X’s ownership of the Twitter and “tweet” trademarks, arguing that Musk abandoned them during the rebrand. The startup plans to launch a new platform called Twitter.new and says over 145,000 users have already reserved usernames. That traction appears to have pushed X into action.<br />
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X’s response is clear: Twitter never really left. In its lawsuit, the company argues that people still call posts “tweets”, the twitter.com domain still redirects to X, and millions of users still access the platform that way. From X’s perspective, Operation Bluebird isn’t reviving anything; it’s trying to cash in on Twitter’s goodwill and confuse users and advertisers.<br />
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The case now puts a long-running contradiction under the spotlight. X spent years publicly closing the door on Twitter, but the moment someone else tried to reopen it, the brand suddenly became worth defending. The court will decide whether Twitter was truly abandoned or just renamed, but one thing is already clear: walking away from a powerfu...
