Seriously, why “Tweet”? 1
If I had never known about Twitter and were asked to start a company exactly like it, I would have called it “Bleeter” instead. Anything you said in 140 characters would be a “Bleet.” And, best of all, the phrase “Follow me” would just make SO much more sense when you’re talking about sheep.
- I’m pretty late to the whole “Twitter” phenom. [↩]
In “Men who stare at goats” the military goats were “debleated.”
Just saying…
-Rob
It is my understanding that the creators of Twitter wanted to call the postings “twitterings,” but the early adopters wanted to either call them “twits” or “tweets.” For some reason, it was decided that “tweet” was the more likely of the two to catch on in the mass market.
Of course, that was an internet rumor, so it has a 26.513825% chance of being true.
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