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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Posted by on June 12, 2010 in Humor, Twitter.

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About Ron Shevlin

Senior Analyst Aite Group

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  1. Bonnie says:
    June 12, 2010 at 5:40 pm

    Someone at the NY Times needs to retire (or maybe get tossed out on his tuchus — http://bit.ly/c4URIp). Clearly he is too old for his job.

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  2. Brett King says:
    June 12, 2010 at 7:31 pm

    Ron,

    How about:

    Informational Dispatches Ignoring Obvious Terminology

    BK

    Reply

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