Cathy GellisI love this. Let's all be on a mission to genericide Twitter!
Damon Kiesow (@[email protected])
I am going to keep calling them tweets thereby further damaging the value of the original brand identity.
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Jorge Candeias@cathygellis Wouldn't work, though. Case in point: in Portugal it's standard practice to call all colas "coke". And that did not hurt the original brand at all. Maybe quite the contrary, adding to brand recognition.
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@jorgecandeias @pluralistic It's about turning "tweet" into a generic word, and something no longer clearly associated with Twitter. (Has nothing to do with reputation.)
@cathygellis @pluralistic I maintain the same opinion: it woldn't work.
Besides, the people who created the terminology clearly took great care to come up with something that disassociated the mastodon experience from twitter. Is it really a good idea for us newcomers to try to impose on them the terminology they so obviously wanted to leave behind?
We're free to do it, of course. But should we?
I, for one, very much think we shouldn't.
evanboho@cathygellis @jorgecandeias @pluralistic I have to agree with Jorge: becoming the generic word for a thing worked out pretty well for Xerox and Kleenex.