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Twitter vs. Tweet (Noun vs. Verb)

June 28th, 2009 · No Comments · MWC.6.09

Noun vs. Verb

Here it goes. Twitter is an application, essentially its a thing, making it a noun. Its a thing that people go to post words about ‘what they are doing.’ That being said, when you post whatever you are doing, that is considered a ‘Tweet.”

Why?

Well once your tweet is posted, it therefore is past tense making it a verb like ate, slept, ran. You wouldn’t say I twittered that because twitter is just the application where you tweet. Basically its a fun way to say you posted whatever it was that you posted. There is a tweetie bird on the website which is the mascot for twitter, that’s also a reason why the word is accepted.

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