By no means thoughts, tweets needs to be referred to as posts now

However that’s not why I believe it’s time to retire the “tweet.” I wanted to save it. I felt that it was clearly turning 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 as a result of its crucial brevity. Now when you pay sufficient you’ll be able to have as much as 4,000 characters in a Tweet, or you may get 500 characters totally free on Threads, almost 5 instances Twitter’s unique character restrict. You not must be so economical along with your phrases.

However the actual cause now we have 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 got to cease utilizing it as a result of I’ve actually tried for the previous couple of weeks since I referred to 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 publish” when its a 500-character screed about somebody’s Diablo IV construct. Ditto for “Are you able to consider what that girl tweeted on Mastodon?”

So people we’re going to simply have to stay with “publish”. 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 very least it’s straightforward to say.