To email, to google and not to tweet

The NY Times likes neither the verb “to tweet” nor the noun “tweet”.

Some social-media fans may disagree, but outside of ornithological contexts, “tweet” has not yet achieved the status of standard English. And standard English is what we should use in news articles.

Except for special effect, we try to avoid colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon. And “tweet” — as a noun or a verb, referring to messages on Twitter — is all three.

How strange – I thought they had changed the world as much as Google had ;-)

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