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I approve. No one asked me, but if they had, I'd have opined that the pre-cuting of your nomenclature is usually the result of too much time spent thinking abo

I approve. No one asked me, but if they had, I'd have opined that the pre-cuting of your nomenclature is usually the result of too much time spent thinking about branding and not enough time building features. Note that "tweet" was spawned organically by the community, and Twitter did not adopt the word formally for a couple years after it was in popular use.

bogwog 6y ago
> is usually the result of too much time spent thinking about branding and not enough time building features. Uh, I think you might have it backwards there. The Mastodon folks probably didn't spend enough time thinking about branding.
- marcinzm 6y ago
  I feel it's more that they spent too much thinking about branding but they were just not very good at it.
  - yifanl 6y ago
    It was done entirely on the whims of a joke 5 years ago when mastodon was at single-server scale: https://mastodon.social/@Hbomberguy/146524 https://mastodon.social/@Hbomberguy/146524
Uehreka 6y ago
I’m pretty sure there are still some people who were on Twitter early, are grumpy that “tweet” was what caught on, and still say “toot” in regards to posting Twitter statuses.
h0l0cube 6y ago
> Note that "tweet" was spawned organically by the community It took the community to tell Twitter the obvious: > twitter v. (of a bird) give a call consisting of repeated light tremulous sounds. > tweet n. a chirping note. Seems that a 3rd party application popularised the term, avoiding yet another faux-pas: > One Twitter developer, Blaine Cook, had been testing the beta releases of Twitterrific. Early that month, Cook sent Hockenberry an email suggesting changing the word “twit” to “tweet.” Hockenberry immediately made the change. > twit n. a silly or foolish person. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-origin-of-the-word-tweet-2013-7?nojs=1 https://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-origin-of-the-word-tw...
- quesera 6y ago
  > It took the community to tell Twitter the obvious: This made me laugh, because it's basically the Twitter Story. In fairness, with such an enormous community and such a tiny (exposed) application surface, this is probably a natural law -- akin to the creative games kids will invent with rocks and sticks. :)

bogwog 6y ago

> is usually the result of too much time spent thinking about branding and not enough time building features. Uh, I think you might have it backwards there. The Mastodon folks probably didn't spend enough time thinking about branding.

marcinzm 6y ago
I feel it's more that they spent too much thinking about branding but they were just not very good at it.
- yifanl 6y ago
  It was done entirely on the whims of a joke 5 years ago when mastodon was at single-server scale: https://mastodon.social/@Hbomberguy/146524 https://mastodon.social/@Hbomberguy/146524

Uehreka 6y ago

I’m pretty sure there are still some people who were on Twitter early, are grumpy that “tweet” was what caught on, and still say “toot” in regards to posting Twitter statuses.

h0l0cube 6y ago

> Note that "tweet" was spawned organically by the community It took the community to tell Twitter the obvious: > twitter v. (of a bird) give a call consisting of repeated light tremulous sounds. > tweet n. a chirping note. Seems that a 3rd party application popularised the term, avoiding yet another faux-pas: > One Twitter developer, Blaine Cook, had been testing the beta releases of Twitterrific. Early that month, Cook sent Hockenberry an email suggesting changing the word “twit” to “tweet.” Hockenberry immediately made the change. > twit n. a silly or foolish person. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-origin-of-the-word-tweet-2013-7?nojs=1 https://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-origin-of-the-word-tw...

quesera 6y ago
> It took the community to tell Twitter the obvious: This made me laugh, because it's basically the Twitter Story. In fairness, with such an enormous community and such a tiny (exposed) application surface, this is probably a natural law -- akin to the creative games kids will invent with rocks and sticks. :)