Tweets should be called posts now

However that’s not why I believe it’s time to retire the “tweet.” I needed to put it aside. 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 vital brevity. Now in case you pay sufficient you possibly can 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 authentic character restrict. You now not should be so economical together with your phrases.

However the actual cause 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 have now to cease utilizing it as a result of I’ve actually tried for the previous few 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 submit” 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 “submit”. 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 simple to say.