The New York Times Bans Use of Word ‘Tweet’
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I guess it can’t be long before they start banning other words like “Facebook” and “text” with burning books following soon after.
To anyone who uses Twitter, the word “tweet” is as natural as, well, a bird. But don’t expect to see it in The New York Times. “Someday, ‘tweet’ may be as common as ‘e-mail,’ ” wrote Phil Corbett, the Times’ standards editor, in a memo this week, according to The Awl. But, for now, Corbett has nixed further use of the word — “outside of ornithological contexts,” he wrote.
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