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.)
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.