It just keeps reminding me of the old rhyme about beans, beans, the magical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot. (Although in the English of most former colonies that didn't violently rebel, it's pronounced "fart").
I suppose that's the point, it's a nice meta joke punning on tweet, but implying it's all just farting in the wind.
https://gizmodo.com/mastodon-toot-retired-twitter-tweet-equi...
Also true in American English. You have two things wrong:
1. The rhyme calls beans "the musical fruit".
2. "Toot" is relevant in that context, being a way you can describe blowing a horn.[1] But obviously, the primary reason for using the word "toot" there is that it rhymes with fruit, not that it's the normal word for farting.
[1] Or sometimes another instrument; there's a tongue twister that starts "A tutor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot."
As you've already done, you can call it a "message", I call it a "post". We don't need every social media site to strictly require their own bespoke terminology merely for the sake of branding.
However it did amuse use that a man full of hot air would be named after the expelling of warm but noxious air.
So the more likely scenario is the name was only picked because it sounded similar to their original German family name while being an English-styled spelling.
Given we are taking 30+ years ago though, the best we can do at this stage is speculate.
However even if the card game theory were true, it still doesn’t make Trump a powerful name in the U.K. because the fart connotation is still more prevalent.