The Associated Press Stylebook entered it in 2010. The Oxford English Dictionary added “tweet” in 2011. No other social network has a word for posting that’s entered the vernacular like “tweet” - though Google did the same for “googling." News sites embed tweets in their stories and TV programs scroll them.
People who never signed up for Twitter knew what the word meant.įor now, we still tweet, retweet and quote tweet, and sometimes - perhaps not often enough - delete tweets. Former president Donald Trump's incendiary use of the bird app quickly punted “tweet” into near-constant headlines during his presidency. World leaders, celebrities and athletes, dissidents in repressive regimes, propaganda trolls, sex workers and religious icons, meme queens and actual queens. We've been tweeting for well over a decade.
But “twittered” doesn't roll off the tongue and “tweet” soon took over, first in the Twitter office, then San Francisco, then everywhere. Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon's surface, officials sayĪt the beginning, people didn't “tweet” - it was "I'm going to twitter this," Bilton recalled.
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