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a thought small enough to fit in your pocket and loud enough to start a war
means A short message posted on the platform formerly called Twitter, or the small chirping sound a bird makes.
from Originally an imitative word — "tweet" is the human attempt to spell a birdsong, a cousin of "twitter" and "chirp," all of them echoing the sound itself. It surfaced as bird-talk in the 19th century. The internet meaning arrived in the late 2000s, when Twitter borrowed the bird's voice for its short messages — fittingly, since the company's logo was a bird and its posts were imagined as tiny chirps from the crowd.
- origin
- Twitter's name came from a bird's idle chatter
- old limit
- Started at 140 characters, sized for SMS
- presidential weapon
- Outranks press releases in the modern era
- market mover
- A single post has crashed stock prices
- now extinct
- Officially renamed posts after the X rebrand
twitter's first tweet — jack dorsey, @jack, march 21, 2006: 'just setting up my twttr'
tweet about pizza hut — wendy's vs burger king viral exchange, may 2017, most retweeted fast food feud