@ev Tweet and toot are platform specific terms. You cant just describe any post that you see on your Mastodon timeline as either a toot or a tweet, as they might be made on platforms as diverse as PixelFed, Bookwyrm, Owncast, Pleroma, or in the future, even Tumblr. PixelFed users dont toot either, so replacing toot with tweet doesnt make sense.

Now you can describe a post that you've made on Mastodon as a toot, since thats the language that Mastodon users, and a Twitter repost as a tweet