geneb, did you miss yahoo’s expensive ad campaign where they would ask, “Do you Yahoo?!”
Not so. In the early days when there were only a few hundred thousand users the term was twittered. See here, for example.
I’m pretty sure tweet was introduced and/or popularized by Twitter itself, though.
Probably… I haven’t had a TV in a very long time. I wouldn’t like that either.
Really. Which ones? I just checked my 1960 Webster’s and the only not there was “Internet.”
Ha! Try arguing with your news editor to fit that into your lead paragraph. Good joke.
I agree with aceplace57 that it’s a concise and immediately evocative way to convey the context of the message and its intended audience.
Was is twittered? You’re right, now that I think about it. There’s no way I could find the podcast at this point.
Besides, considering the guys doing the podcast, there was a lot of abuse about the guy on Twitter being a twit and twittering about how he was going to the bathroom and stuff like that.
Does it bother you when someone ‘pits’ another user on this message board?
I figure that it’s because people are A-Twitter about something (excitedly chattering back and forth, in the manner of a bunch of startled birds), and each individual message is thus a tweet. I don’t use the service, but then again, I’m always Facebooking, so whatever.
The New York Times bans use of word ‘tweet’
I’m surprised this hasn’t been mentioned yet, the story is about a year old. So yeah, if you write for the Times your editor will insist that you use “via Twitter” rather than “tweeted”.
Yes. I do. I refuse to use that service, though I have seen it put to good use on news sites like Al Jazeera that have a live feed next to their stories.
But my personal pet peeve is that this era will go down is history as the age of Facebook, Twitter and Google. I hate the whole trend of meaningless or idiotic names. Accenture, Enron, Altria, and the rest.
Bah! Get off of my lawn!!!
And if I ever meet the persons that came up with ‘Snooki’, I refuse to be held liable for any acts I might commit. But it may likely involve a tattoo artist. (cf. Luke from Freak Angels.
I’ve always found this recent usage of tweet interesting, since I would have expected people to simply use “twitter” as the verb. It suggests that some sort of umlauting process is at work, and umlauting is a very old mechanism in Germanic languages for modifications of tense, number, or part-of-speech. An example would be tooth, with plural teeth and the verb to teethe (to grow teeth). Or for another example, song and sing. English doesn’t have a whole lot of these examples compared with, say, German or Icelandic. So if this really is where we get twitter/tweet, it’s an interesting holdover from an earlier period of the history of the language.
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