Twitter

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Yup, "tweet" in this sense was a contender during the WOTY
> competition at the ADS meeting in San Francisco last month.

Both the noun and the verb "tweet" have been around since early 2007 at least.


* tweet, n. 'a Twitter update'

http://weblog.200ok.com.au/2007/01/two-weeks-on-twitter.html
Ben Buchanan, The 200ok weblog, Jan. 14, 2007
Tweet:  A Twitter update. "where's that tweet about the bar meet?"


* tweet, v. intr. 'to post (something) in a Twitter update'

http://www.nosuch.org/2007/01/17/twitter-away-the-moments/
Alex, nosuch.org, Jan. 17, 2007
You can also get updates of what your friends are "tweeting" via SMS or IM.


* tweet, v. trans. 'to post Twitter updates'

http://liz-henry.blogspot.com/2007/02/some-amusing-ideas-around-twitter.html
Liz Henry, Composite: Thoughts on Poetics & Tech, Feb. 6, 2007
Does one tend to tweet at particular times, like during commute... at
dinner... Or what?


--Ben Zimmer

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