Stephen Downes

This organization is filing to have the Twitter trademark and logo revoked with the intention of reviving Twitter. You can apply for your (old?) username here. Though one wonders. As Mike Masnick says, "I'm honestly perplexed at to who would try to start from scratch to build a centralized Twitter clone in this day and age, rather than building on an existing open protocol." Though maybe the new Twitter won't be exactly like the old Twitter?