Afghanistan, Nov. 10 -- Is Twitter preparing a comeback in app stores, this time as a rival to Elon Musk's X?
The question has spread across X in recent days after widely shared posts claimed that Twitter, which Musk renamed X in 2023, was returning to compete with its successor. One user post on November 8 told followers that X was about to face "a new competitor: Twitter." Grok, the AI chatbot built into X, replied that it was not Twitter coming back.
The original Twitter is not returning. Behind the viral claims is Operation Bluebird, a Virginia-based startup whose president and general counsel, Stephen Coates, previously worked as a trademark lawyer at Twitter. The company runs Tweet.app, a separate social network modeled on the old T...