Twitter

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:10 PM -0500 2/6/09, Victor wrote:
>Twitter is likely to spawn as many neologisms as other technological
>developments of the past decade. I've heard people using "twitter" as a
>verb, but that's a bit blah. Carolyn Elephan of the Legal Blog Watch is
>using a different verb to describe the same action: tweeting.
>
>     VS-)
>
>http://editorial.incisivemedia.com/c/196yp6VCIKCujcz3
>
>_Is Tweeting for Clients the Same as Solicitation?_
>
>What's the difference between tweeting a prospective client and outright
>solicitation? I'm not entirely sure, but an encounter between a car
>accident victim and a lawyer on Twitter, described at Law Firm and
>Attorney SEO and Internet Marketing, came close enough to trigger the
>question in my mind.
>
Yup, "tweet" in this sense was a contender during the WOTY
competition at the ADS meeting in San Francisco last month.

LH

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