Taylor LorenzEnd of an era!! https://gizmodo.com/mastodon-toot-retired-twitter-tweet-equivalent-1849786221 #technology #twittermigrate #mastodonculture #tech #news #journalist
Chris Coleman@taylorlorenz I'm *pretty sure* that like most good things on Twitter, "tweet" came from users. I have a feeling "toot" is here to stay.
Alex R@Chris @taylorlorenz It’s quite an interesting story – like many things about Twitter, including the logo, it was #Twiterriffic, an early third-party client, that popularised the name https://furbo.org/2013/06/28/the-origin-of-tweet/
The Origin of Tweet • furbo.org
Last week, one of my colleagues informed me that the word “tweet” was now included in the Oxford English Dictionary (see “Quiet announcement” at the end of the page.) The noun and verb tweet (in the social-networking sense) has just been added to the OED. This breaks at least one OED rule, namely that a […]
@alex @taylorlorenz Ah yeah, I thought it had come from Twitterrific.
I got on Twitter in March of 2007, and started using it almost immediately. In fact, I have almost no memory of Twitter’s site from back then because I only ever used Twitterrific. I can’t help but wonder to what degree it helped influential users like Gruber stick with Twitter.
@Chris @taylorlorenz Yeah, I just used the site to sign up and apps pretty much exclusively from then on! And it does really feel like early Twitter was connected really strongly to that sort of Mac blogger culture.