TechCrunch have posted a report about Twitter growing "uncomfortable" with the use of the word ‘tweet‘ in applications. The post and the subsequent comments are pretty interesting to read in the context of Twitter’s actions in relation to IP & trademarks.

It’ll be an interesting one to follow. On the one hand, you can understand that Twitter want to protect their intellectual assets, including their trade and service marks. On the other hand, this has the potential to alienate a bunch of developers of web services and desktop/mobile clients that have used variations of ‘tweet‘ (including, of course, SemanticTweet) to build their own businesses and consequently improve Twitter’s.