What Should The New York Times Call Tweets?

Did you see that the New York Times has banned the use of the term “tweet”? Apparently, the standards editor at the paper asked writers to “abstain from the invented past-tense and other weird iterations of the magical noun-verb ‘Twitter’.”

So what should the New York Times call it? Here’s one suggestion to the Times:

Multi-Originated Real-time Outbound Notes.

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