[Ads-l] Earlier forms of "twittersphere"

[Hugo]

Newly added in the OED, "twittersphere", n.:

2006   @darren 6 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive)    [Darren] welcomes
Mike to the twittersphere.

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Here's some earlier variant forms:

2006   @dom 13 Apr.
wondering what's up in the twit-o-sphere
https://twitter.com/dom/status/2008

2006   @dom 10 May
"tweet-o-sphere" sounds better than "twit-o-sphere"
https://twitter.com/dom/status/3921

2006   @shellen 14 Nov.
Twittering @ cheese might be the blogging @ cats of the twitosphere.
https://twitter.com/shellen/status/65506

2006   @Dplanet 24 Nov.
but i feel much better now i've exposed her evil ways to the twittosphere :)
https://twitter.com/Dplanet/status/182473

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That "tweet-o-sphere" by @dom was also before the earliest "tweet", n.:

2006   @CyberWanderlust 23 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive)    Thanks
for new Twidget and knowing who likes my tweet and who don't.

And @dom is responsible for the earliest known "twitter" as both
intransitive and transitive verbs:

https://twitter.com/bgzimmer/status/1141062536403587072

Hugo

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