Back in December, a Virginia startup going by Operation Bluebird announced that it wanted to bring back Twitter. After all, the social media platform that everyone colloquially calls that is actually X, which sits under the SpaceX umbrella, and is therefore owned by Elon Musk. The startup said at the time that the Twitter name has been left unused since the new owner took over, and so it wants to bring back the blue bird social media platform. Now, the platform is back, at Twitter.now.
According to Ars Technica, shortly after the announcement late last year, Musk sued Operation Bluebird to stop the new platform from launching. That said, an April 2026 hearing saw US District Court Judge Colm Connolly giving a tentative ruling that X seemed to have given up the Twitter IP, including the bird logo and the word “tweet” as well as potentially the word “Twitter”. Even though a written order was not issued, Operation Bluebird cofounder Stephen Coates took that as the green light to go ahead with launching the new social media platform with said name.
The report notes that Twitter.now has only hundreds of users for now, but it sports a notable feature called Vera, or “veracity engine for real-time analysis”. It’s a Google Gemini-powered automated fact-checking tool that runs on every tweet. The report also cites Coates as saying that “we want people to say what they want, but we also want to create a platform that’s not financially locked into that viral content that’s harmful or inaccurate”.
All that being said, you can’t just pop over there and open an account. As part of its Early Access phase, it costs US$20 (~RM80.56) to do that, but for what it’s worth, you also get Founder status.
(Source: Ars Technica, Twitter.now, Stephen Coates / LinkedIn)
