Nothing is violated.. (well, if you're using IE 8)
Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines
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#12Ummm... Why?
Why not?
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#13Ummm... Why?
To, like, fight the power, man.
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#14Maybe it's just me, change aversion and all, but the new bird is a bit odd and not friendly anymore. It's facing up in an angelic pose, tilting it's head back in ecstasy.
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#15I love that someone did this. Twitter is crazy if they think anyone without API access and a financial stake is actually going to bother to listen to their brand guidelines.
One of the things that made Twitter a great brand is that end users got to kind of invent a little bit of the brand whenever they promoted their Twitter accounts on their sites and other places. It encouraged creativity that eventually extended to what the users posted on the service.
Why bow to the gods of uniformity after half a decade of freedom? With the reach of their network and the level of influence they've built, don't they have something better to spend their time on?
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#16Nice.
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#17uiuiuiui
https://twitter.com/about/logos
someone at twitter must have had to much time at his (or her) hands.
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#18I love that someone did this. Twitter is crazy if they think anyone without API access and a financial stake is actually going to bother to listen to their brand guidelines. One of the things that made Twitter a great brand is that end users got to kind of invent a little bit of the brand whenever they promoted their Twitter accounts on their sites and other places. It encouraged creativity that eventually extended t…
I don't think they really expect everyone to listen to their guidelines. However, in order to maintain their trademark, I believe they have to defend it actively. I think this page is more a way to appease the lawyers than anything else.
Of course, I know literally nothing about the laws in question and could be off base entirely.
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#19Doesn't work in Mobile Safari. (Does it use legacy technologies like Flash or Java?)
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#20very good, I laughed a lot.