A guy literally “#tweeting” on the cover of an Amiga World from 1988

He's not literally "#tweeting", he's literally "TWEET"ing. I know that's outrageously pedantic, but when you start using the word "literally", that's what you open yourself up to.

I guess the metaphor isn't so obscure that there wouldn't be 'prior art'. Interestingly, the tweeting (calls and songs) that birds do is primarily used for "courtship" and functions such as "alarms or keeping members of a flock in contact" [1]. Pretty much sums up twitter, doesn't it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_vocalization

Even though he's not literally "#tweeting", I still think it's pretty neat that someone found this. I love when old things are related back to new things so closely. I don't think it's worth beating him up about the word "literally".

Actually you both are correct, thank you! :)

I'll just leave this here... http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally

Amiga... was so ahead of its time.

They say Commodore was also so ahead of its time :)

Yep, that's what tweeting was named after.

Really? I didn't know that and I want to be sure.

No, I just wanted to confuse people here :P

s/No/I have no idea/

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