Tweet Is To Twitter As Twit Is To Tweeter

The Small and Big Amiglia-maticNope, twit is to Twitter as tweet is to Tweeter.

How come when you use Twitter you’re said to be posting tweets? Ahem, wouldn’t that be (see above)? And doesn’t that make six million people, plus myself, twits?

Comments

mason said…
i neither twit nor tweet twixt all the time it takes for tasks instead!

say that 10 times!
May 27, 2009
P.L. Frederick said…
A tongue twisting tweet. It must be tough, texting with toes? (MasonMania)
May 28, 2009
mason said…
True! It's terribly tricky to type too. Thanks!
May 28, 2009
mason said…
By the way, your blog o the nanosecond looks good today!
May 28, 2009
P.L. Frederick said…
It do. I can't. Quite. Put. My. Finger on why though. Hmmmmm... (Of course, by the time most people read this they won't know what the heck I'm talking about, as the MasonMania ad probably ain't there no mo'.)
May 28, 2009
Lidian said…
Yeah, I often feel like a twit re Twitter! :)
May 28, 2009
Patricia Rockwell said…
Not sure, but I think a "tweeter" is actually something. Doesn't it belong with a "woofer"?
May 29, 2009
P.L. Frederick said…
I think so, Patricia. Audio speakers. Now, can someone explain that? Woofing and tweeting and speaking?
June 01, 2009
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