Elon Musk may want to send 91裸聊视频渢weet91裸聊视频� back to the birds, but the ubiquitous term for posting on the site is here to stay 91裸聊视频� at least for now.

For one, the word is still plastered all over the site formerly known as Twitter. Write a post, you still need to press a blue button that says 91裸聊视频渢weet91裸聊视频� to publish it. To repost it, you still tap 91裸聊视频渞etweet.91裸聊视频�

But it91裸聊视频檚 more than that.

With 91裸聊视频渢weets,91裸聊视频� in just a few years something few companies have done in a lifetime: It became a verb and implanted itself into the lexicon of America and the world. takes more than a top-down declaration, even if it is from the owner of Twitter-turned-X, who also happens to be one of the world91裸聊视频檚 richest men.

91裸聊视频淟anguage has always come from the people that use it on a day-to-day basis. And it can91裸聊视频檛 be controlled, it can91裸聊视频檛 be created, it can91裸聊视频檛 be morphed. You don91裸聊视频檛 get to decide it,91裸聊视频� said Nick Bilton, the author of 91裸聊视频淗atching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal91裸聊视频� about Twitter91裸聊视频檚 origins.

Twitter didn91裸聊视频檛 start out as Twitter. It was 91裸聊视频渢wttr91裸聊视频� 91裸聊视频� without vowels, which was the trend in 2006 when the platform launched and SMS texting was wildly popular. The iPhone only came out in 2007.

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams 91裸聊视频渨ent one day and purchased the vowels, two vowels for essentially $7,500 each,91裸聊视频� when he bought the URL for twitter.com from a bird enthusiast, Bilton said.

At the beginning, people didn91裸聊视频檛 91裸聊视频渢weet91裸聊视频� 91裸聊视频� it was 91裸聊视频淚91裸聊视频檓 going to twitter this,91裸聊视频� Bilton recalled. But 91裸聊视频渢wittered91裸聊视频� doesn91裸聊视频檛 roll off the tongue and 91裸聊视频渢weet91裸聊视频� soon took over, first in the Twitter office, then San Francisco, then everywhere.

We91裸聊视频檝e been . World leaders, celebrities and athletes, dissidents in repressive regimes, , sex workers and religious icons, meme queens and actual queens. Former President Donald Trump91裸聊视频檚 incendiary use of the bird app quickly punted 91裸聊视频渢weet91裸聊视频� into near-constant headlines during his presidency. People who never signed up for Twitter knew what the word meant.

For now, we still tweet, retweet and quote tweet, and sometimes 91裸聊视频� perhaps not often enough 91裸聊视频� delete tweets. News sites embed tweets in their stories and TV programs scroll them. No other social network has a word for posting that91裸聊视频檚 entered the vernacular like 91裸聊视频渢weet91裸聊视频� 91裸聊视频� though Google did the same for 91裸聊视频済oogling.91裸聊视频�

The Oxford English Dictionary added 91裸聊视频渢weet91裸聊视频� in 2011. Merriam-Webster followed in 2013. The Associated Press Stylebook entered it in 2010.

91裸聊视频淕etting into the dictionary is an indication that people are already using it,91裸聊视频� said Jack Lynch, a Rutgers University English professor who studies the history of language. 91裸聊视频淒ictionaries are usually pretty tentative or cautious about letting new words in, especially for new phenomena, because they don91裸聊视频檛 want things to be just a flash in the pan.91裸聊视频�

As Twitter grew into a global communications platform and struggled with misinformation, trolls and hate speech, its friendly brand image remained. The blue bird icon evokes a smile, like the Amazon up-turned-arrow smile 91裸聊视频� in contrast to the X that Musk has imposed.

Martin Grasser was two years out of art school when Twitter hired him for the logo redesign in 2011. His wasn91裸聊视频檛 the first bird logo for Twitter, but it would be the most enduring.

91裸聊视频淭hey knew they wanted a bird. So we weren91裸聊视频檛 starting completely over, but they wanted it to be on par with Apple and Nike. That was really the brief,91裸聊视频� he said.

Twitter launched Grasser91裸聊视频檚 design in May 2012; the company went public on Wall Street later that year.

One early in-house design shown to Grasser looked like 91裸聊视频渁 flying goose with a tail. It looked kind of like a dragon. It was crazy,91裸聊视频� he said. Jack Dorsey, another co-founder (and twice-CEO) wanted something simpler.

The bird represented a vision of Twitter as a friendly place 91裸聊视频渨here everyone can weigh in and chat,91裸聊视频� Grasser said.

91裸聊视频淭he round form evokes a sense of optimism, the bird even being sort of turned upward, as corny as that sounds, I think is different than a bird flying down or flat,91裸聊视频� he said. 91裸聊视频淲e wanted to give it this idea of like soaring.91裸聊视频�

The word 91裸聊视频淭witter91裸聊视频� itself is playful, as is 91裸聊视频渢weet.91裸聊视频� This was no accident, Bilton said.

Other names that floated as the platform started out included 91裸聊视频淪tatus91裸聊视频� and 91裸聊视频淔riend Stalker.91裸聊视频�

It was Noah Glass, another co-founder who never quite got the credit he deserved for his role in hatching Twitter, who had the winning idea.

Glass, Bilton said, 91裸聊视频渉ad been thinking about like heartbeats and emotions. He was going through a divorce and he literally went through the dictionary word by word until he came across the word twitter. And he just knew instantly that was it.91裸聊视频�

91裸聊视频淗e was one of the four founders who had the emotional intelligence to be able to understand that this was about connecting with humans,91裸聊视频� Bilton said. 91裸聊视频淚t was inviting, it was emotional. It was about connecting with humans and your friends and your loved ones.91裸聊视频�

Musk began his quest erasing Twitter91裸聊视频檚 corporate culture and image in favor of his own vision as soon as he in October 2022. He lost three-quarters of the company91裸聊视频檚 staff through firings, layoffs and voluntary departures, auctioned off furniture and d茅cor, and upended policies on hate speech and misinformation. The rebranding to X was no surprise.

Twitter91裸聊视频檚 rebranding is rooted in ambition that Musk began to pursue nearly a quarter century ago after he sold his first startup, Zip2, to Compaq Computer. He set out to create a one-stop digital shop for finance called X.com 91裸聊视频� an 91裸聊视频渆verything91裸聊视频� service that would provide bank accounts, process payments, make loans and handle investments.

He has not given up on the dream. Twitter is now X, falling in line with Musk91裸聊视频檚 other X-named brands, SpaceX and Tesla91裸聊视频檚 Model X. Not to mention his young son, whom he calls 91裸聊视频淴.91裸聊视频�

His goal for X is to turn it into an 91裸聊视频渆verything91裸聊视频� app 91裸聊视频� for video, photos, messaging, payments and other services, although he has given few details. For now, X.com is still, essentially Twitter.com, even as the blue bird and other playful tidbits start to disappear.

91裸聊视频淭here used to be a saying inside Twitter that Twitter was the company that couldn91裸聊视频檛 kill itself. I think that still rings true, whether it91裸聊视频檚 called Twitter or X,91裸聊视频� Bilton said.

91裸聊视频淚 think that it91裸聊视频檚 kind of become a fabric of society. And even Elon Musk may not be able to break it.91裸聊视频�

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