Friday, June 5, 2009

twit-ing?

Why are individual posts on twitter called tweets? Wouldn't the singular of twittering be a twit? How is that a tweet?

We will add this to the long list of human behaviors Rob's does not get.

3 comments:

  1. It has to do with birds; the plural of a birdy tweet is twitter.

    From Dictionary.com:
    twit⋅ter [twit-er]
    1. To utter a succession of small, tremulous sounds, as a bird


    There, now you can take that off your list of human behaviors you don't understand!

    So, why don't you join the party at Twitter already?! Drink the Kool-Aid! ;)

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  2. I think they're twits too!

    Where ya been Rob??

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  3. Jules- telling me that twitter is the plural of tweet is suppossed to make me feel better about human behaviors? :);)

    Tammy- Now now, some folks say the same thing about bloggers!

    As to where I have been- just running out of blog worthy things to post about. :(

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