The ever-changing landscape of the Internet leads to many gaps between who’s in and who’s out, especially with regards to jargon. Nothing makes a person look less aware than gross misuse of terminology. I’ve assembled this brief guide to help our valued readers cope in our Twitter world.
Acceptable Phrasing
Twitter
|ˈtwitər|
Noun: A micro-blogging service, in which users post updates consisting of 140 or fewer characters.
Verb: To use Twitter
Tweet
|twēt|
Noun: A single post on Twitter
Verb: To create a post on Twitter
Unacceptable Parlance
- · Twit, twitted
- · Tweetered
- · Any use of t, w, a vowel, and then t (especially in the case of “a”)
