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Still not sure why they named it after an extinct Mammoth.
by mothsonasloth 8y ago
Still not sure why they named it after an extinct Mammoth.
- camjohnson26 8y agoOr named their tweets "toots". It's like they want it to fail.
- riffic 8y ago> It's like they want it to fail. This is software -- if you have a better idea create your own implementation of the underlying protocol: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
- r00fus 8y agocockroachdb is still surviving/thriving. Sometimes a product/project rises beyond it's name.
- phalangion 8y agoOr lives up to its name.
- progval 8y ago> Or named their tweets "toots". It's like they want it to fail. Why?
- naavis 8y agoIt's a slang word for farts.
- progval 8y agoI know, but it does not keep people away. Or maybe just "too serious" people
- Twisol 8y agoIt's also used in more musical contexts, as with horns and trumpets -- for instance, "to toot one's own horn". (Animals with large trunks, like elphants and mastodons, would be considered to trumpet.) The fact that a fart makes a sound like that of a trumpet merely makes it a convenient bowdlerization.
- yborg 8y agoOr it will only fail to attract those with no sense of humor, which would actually be a success.
- phyzome 8y agoI'll just point out that "Twitter" sounded equally ridiculous when it first came out.
- jasonvorhe 8y agoI never actually used the verb "to tweet" and instead always opted for "to twitter". Tweet just sounded wrong.
- progval 8y agoIt was named after the band.
- mkl 8y agoMastodons were quite different from mammoths, and not closely related. Mammoths were relatively close to Asian elephants, diverging something like 7 million years ago (like us and chimpanzees), but mastodons diverged from elephants and mammoths more like 25 million years ago (like old world monkeys and apes/humans).