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Is it twittering or tweeting?

10/31/2009 - 1:00 am By Arnt Eriksen

The guys from Twitter are indeed busy! More and more people are interested and intrigued with what is going on with the company.  Here is a funny question. Is it Tweeting or Twittering?  Here is cool video of an interview with Biz Stone and EV on The View. I just needed to share this very funny and very informative interview with the co founders themselves. Analogies and stories about people who use Twitter was truly entertaining.  How they started and where they got the idea for the micro blogging platform.

Ok so what is it? Twittering or Tweeting. According to Biz Twitter is a verb, the sound that a bird makes. Twittering is what the bird does. so the answer is Twittering. He says Tweeting is also fine. Tweeting stemmed from Tweet (meaning the update that one makes).

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Arnt Eriksen has worked with creative and visual communication for the last 2 decades, and is one of the leading authorities within digital- and social media in Norway. With his extensive experience from the advertising industry and from running his own agency for years, he delivers and builds actionable and quality relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Arnt combines strategic and creative thinking with storytelling to engage and attract clients to companies. Arnt is a passionate and engaged speaker, keynoter and advisor to teach companies about communication and social media covering subjects such as “the future of communication”, “the ROI of Social Media” and “You – a digital brand” Connect with him at @arnteriksen


13 Comments

Michael James

October 31st, 2009

Personally, I tend towards “tweet” as a verb because, if anything, it’s more compact and trips off the tongue easier than the equivalent “twitter”. Mind you, the past tense “twittered” sounds better than “tweeted”. It depends on the context.

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Ohdoctah

November 9th, 2009

I’ll take Tweeting!

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Kenyatta

November 12th, 2009

I was actually saying “tweeting”. Guess you learn something new everyday! LOL
However, I wonder if this will make any difference to the millions of people tweeting…I mean twittering!

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FredrickLarsson

November 14th, 2009

Twittering – reading and writing tweets.
Tweeting – writing tweets.

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John Fredrickson

November 14th, 2009

Heh, I had no idea they had an official stance on the subject. I guess it doesn’t really matter in the end though as long as people understand you.

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vtknitboy

November 14th, 2009

Tweeting. I am sending tweets so I am tweeting. If tweets were called twitters I would be twittering

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goldeneagle

November 14th, 2009

Twittering is being involved with Twitter(setting up, signing in, reading tweets, checking links, etc.) or twittering your life away. Tweeting is typing and sending messages via Twitter.

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embee

November 15th, 2009

Tweeting all the way. Also twitterers is weird.

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GLO

November 15th, 2009

It’s so easy I don’t see what’s the problem: one twitters tweets. Case closed.

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Michael Emmanuel

November 15th, 2009

Oh that I be a twitter not a twit
For my tweets are pleasant and filled with wit
But the twittering twit who twatters the twat
Has nothing to say and says it a lot.

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Ashmita

June 25th, 2010

twittering it is!! :)

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Xiomara Sewade

July 25th, 2010

@Mike You make a great point

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Devin Mestre

July 30th, 2010

@Mike You make a great point

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