Twitter.now Platform Launched, Twitter Comes Back to Life
Twitter has come back to life three years after being rebranded as X. A website called twitter.com displays an appearance similar to Twitter long before it was purchased by Elon Musk’s company.
A Virginia-based startup named Operation Bluebird announced it has revived the Twitter name and logo, which it said had been abandoned, including announcing the presence of its social media network at twitter.com.
“We are a small company, we have investors and a product. And we waited months to launch it and we are not going to wait any longer,” said Operation Bluebird co-founder Stephen Coates, as quoted from Ars Technica on Monday (31/8/2026).
Ars Technica’s report noted that twitter.now is still in its early stages and only has hundreds of users. One of the features introduced is Vera, an automatic fact-checking engine based on Gemini that runs on every post referred to as a ‘tweet’.
Coates has also been testing Vera over the past few days. He said his company’s goal is to see whether freedom of speech can return through twitter.com.
“We want people to be able to say what they want, but we want to create a platform that is not financially tied to viral or inaccurate content,” he said.
CNBC Indonesia’s observation shows that the twitter.now page indicates it is undergoing maintenance. No activity can be carried out on it. Meanwhile, the twitter.com page still automatically redirects users to x.com.
It is only stated that the service will return as soon as possible. The website’s appearance looks similar to Twitter’s early appearance, with blue colouring and a blue bird as its icon.
The page also states that the service developer is Operation Bluebird. They also wrote that there is no affiliation with X Corp, the company that purchased Twitter several years ago.
Elon Musk officially purchased Twitter on 27 October 2022 for US$44 billion. A year later, he changed the name and logo to X with a black background.
All of its mechanisms also changed, including the term ‘tweet’ which referred to user posts.
In December 2025, Coates and his group believed that when Musk purchased Twitter and changed its name, the Twitter identity and its intellectual property had been abandoned.
Musk’s decision reportedly led Operation Bluebird to claim the Twitter trademark.
Meanwhile, at the end of last year, X Corporation also responded to this issue. The company asked a federal judge in Delaware to issue an order preventing the launch of the new version of Twitter.
However, US District Court Judge Colm Connolly agreed with Operation Bluebird. In an April 2026 hearing, he said X appeared to have relinquished its intellectual property claims to the word ‘tweet’ and the Twitter bird logo, and possibly to the word ‘Twitter’ as well.
Even so, the judge has not yet issued a written order. Coates described the judge’s remarks as a green light.
“In our view, X has relinquished its rights to the Twitter and tweet trademarks,” he said.