You don’t get to decide it,” said Nick Bilton, the author of “Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal” about Twitter’s origins.
And it can’t be controlled, it can’t be created, it can’t be morphed. “Language has always come from the people that use it on a day-to-day basis. Upending that takes more than a top-down declaration, even if it is from the owner of Twitter-turned-X, who also happens to be one of the world’s richest men. With “tweets,” Twitter accomplished in just a few years something few companies have done in a lifetime: It became a verb and implanted itself into the lexicon of America and the world. Write a post, you still need to press a blue button that says “tweet” to publish it.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Elon Musk may want to send “tweet” back to the birds, but the ubiquitous term for posting on the site he now calls X is here to stay - at least for now.įor one, the word is still plastered all over the site formerly known as Twitter.
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