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Cisco owned the "iPhone" trademark and was actively using it to sell products. Weirder things have happened.
Apple simply started using it and told Cisco, "Make me stop".
To which Cisco replied "okay" and forced Apple to agree to an unknown but likely ludicrous licensing fee.
Twitter got Apple money right now? Because even Elons billions aint shit compared to Microsofts literal trillions.
Twitter's got so little money that they can't even pay all their bills, lol.
Honestly I think they rolled out the new branding without finishing it because they can't afford proper designers or project managers. The site still says "Twitter" all over the place and they can't even trademark the new logo.
Apparently they've hired an intern level designer then fired them after 2.5 weeks, once they handed in the design proposal.