Information Madness

Looks like Hindustan Times will soon hear from Twitter.com's lawyers... or may be not. Twitter founders wanted to trademark the word "Tweet" but aparently, three other firms called TweetMarks, Cotweet and Tweetphoto also applied to the US patent and trademark office for the word "Tweet". So the Twitter founders application was rejected. But now, Hindustan Times launched a new website with the word "Tweet"

HT Media has tied up with Cliqz.com to launch HTtweets.com, a news content aggregation website. The website will aggregate and host content related to Bollywood, cricket and general news, picked up from various portals such as NDTV.com, Sify.com, Indianexpress.com, Indiatimes.com and The Asian Age.

When Hindustan Times already has its own portal for ABC (Astrology, Bollywood, Cricket).. why HTTweets.com? So here what HT has to say about why HTTweets.com

Although the site has no relation with Twitter.com or tweets, the name HTtweets.com will let the consumers think about short format news articles and headlines, which when clicked lead to other websites