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It's also slang for ejaculation, so there's that.

As Lil Jon might say,

  To the window, to the wall!
  Til the sweat drop down my balls
  Til all these bitches crawl
  Til all skeet skeet motherfuckers, all skeet skeet god damn!
  Til all skeet skeet motherfuckers, all skeet skeet god damn!

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Incidentally that's also a big part of why the people running the site don't like the name, and why the users do.

I don't know what's worse, this or toots.

Can't we admit Twitter had the perfect name for it, and now that twitter is gone, we can all just call them tweets?

Its almost absurd. Like if phone companies decided to brand text messages and someone got to "Texts" first so companies came up with "Blurts" and "Yells" or "Phonomails" and now we use a different verb based on which walled-garden we are in.

edit:

In thinking on this more, I do think this might impact the image of the communty. The hot lists and other feeds are dominated by the furry community, which is fine, but not everyone's cup of tea. Now naming posts / the verb be an euphemism of ejaculation... it just feels immature and is everyone going to feel welcome?

I really think "tweeting" worked to make it seem more normal and less serious than "posting", which is the brandless term X and Bluesky (the companies, not the communities) both prefer. Posting is for forums and forums are for nerds.

I harbor some hope that Elon will firesale off the trademark on "tweet" and someone can put it to good use

Tweet is the only one that has made any sense IMO being the sound the bird mascot made, thematically with "short chirps", and birds "tweeting" at each other.

> Posting is for forums and forums are for nerds.

But at the end of the day it is still just post on the internet forum.

I want to live in a world where "Twitter" is a category name, and X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads etc. are simply examples of twitters. And you can tweet on all of them.

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