Remember when Twitter was actually good. It helped overthrow countries in the early 2010s. You were able to speak to like-minded people. Now, I can’t go on there without wanting to throw my phone. Since Elon purchased the platform, he switched the name to X. Dumbest marketing brand ever. Yet, a Virginia-based company saw that as an opportunity. Twitter.now is moving forward, even after beating an Elon lawsuit.
Operation Bluebird, the Virginia-based startup trying to revive the allegedly abandoned “Twitter” name and logo, announced Monday. They have launched its new social media network: Twitter.now.
Elon attempted to shut it down by claiming copyright infringement. Operation Bluebird argued, per a petition last year, that X had let go of trademarks like “Twitter” and “Tweet.” Since they changed the name of the company and even ditched “tweet”.
In an April 2026 hearing, US District Court Judge Colm Connolly gave a tentative ruling from the bench and he seemed to have agreed. The judge has yet to issue a written order.
“Operation Bluebird, Inc. picked up the name X Corp. walked away from and is rebuilding it on trust, in your browser at twitter.now,” it states prominently on its website. “We are not X, and we are not affiliated with X Corp.” They are taking huge steps that X, nor any website, have chosen to do.
Twitter.now Has Some Major Changes
Stephen Coates said in a LinkedIn post that the company is not trying to recreate Twitter. “When X Corp. retired the Twitter brand, we saw an opportunity to build something new: a public square organized around trust, transparency, and user choice,” he said.
“Twitter.now is not an attempt to recreate the old platform. We are building a different service, with trust signals that provide context for what users see and tools that allow people—not an opaque algorithm—to decide how much credibility and noise reach their feeds.”
Of course, that means implementing AI. Their AI system, called VERA, that gauges posts, checks claims, gives users the source of the claims, the context, and attaches a trust score. Users will be able to set their preferred trust score to filter out low-trust posts. This will make it more difficult for rage-baiting accounts to spread false information.
Currently, X has been accused of posting false information accounts for engagement. Facebook has become mostly AI slop. As well as pushing AI Islamophobic content. That isn’t to say that the old Twitter was no without their issues, but it was better than now. If you would like to get in on the early access, you need $20.
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