When Adversity Strikes, What Do You Do? - The Conversation - Har. 10 things you need to stop tweeting about. To Tweet or Not to Tweet: The Lingo of Social Media and the New. The New York Times—or more specifically their standards editor Phil Corbett—has decreed that the use of the word “tweet” is no longer welcome in the pages of the famed newspaper. His reasoning? Some social-media fans may disagree, but outside of ornithological contexts, “tweet” has not yet achieved the status of standard English. And standard English is what we should use in news articles.Except for special effect, we try to avoid colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon. And “tweet” — as a noun or a verb, referring to messages on Twitter — is all three. As The Awl points out, Corbett makes some good arguments here. So: alternatives, perhaps? How about you? (Photo CC: by Matt Hamm) 10 things you need to stop tweeting about!
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