Tweets must be known as posts now

However that’s not why I feel it’s time to retire the “tweet.” I wished to reserve it. I felt that it was clearly changing into unbiased of the model that had adopted it. I argued we should always name all microblog posts tweets to keep away from this goofy cycle of toots, skeets, threets, and now xeets. However with each vestige of the identify slowly being scoured from the social media panorama “tweet” feels more and more a part of a bygone period.

It was meant to be one thing temporary. One thing outstanding within the artwork of its conciseness. In a tweet Roger Ebert as soon as likened the the 140-character weblog to poetry resulting from its obligatory brevity. Now if you happen to pay sufficient you may have as much as 4,000 characters in a Tweet, or you will get 500 characters totally free on Threads, practically 5 occasions Twitter’s unique character restrict. You now not should be so economical along with your phrases.

However the actual motive we’ve to cease calling microblog posts tweets isn’t as a result of the microblog itself is slowly shedding its micro or as a result of X is altering the Tweet button. We’ve to cease utilizing it as a result of I’ve actually tried for the previous couple of weeks since I known as for us all to name them tweets and it sucked. “Hey did you see that Thread tweet” sounds sillier than “hey did you see that Thread put up” when its a 500-character screed about somebody’s Diablo IV construct. Ditto for “Are you able to imagine what that woman tweeted on Mastodon?”

So people we’re going to simply have to stay with “put up”. It’s not as enjoyable, it doesn’t do something to somebody’s trademark, and it gained’t as neatly clarify a scenario as “the President simply tweeted.” However at the least it’s straightforward to say.