Twitter Scores a Patent for Twitter
Posted: 3/20/2013  |  By: Daniel Terdiman |CNET
If you're thinking about copying the way Twitter works, you might want to get a good lawyer: the technology at the core of the social network is officially patented.

As first reported by The Verge, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Twitter a patent today for what it termed a "Device independent message distribution platform:"