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Re:The origin of “tweet” at Twitter (2013) by bena on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:35PM (#27056108)
I mean originally, it was supposed to be mass SMS. I send a message and anyone who wanted to receive it did so. It was sort of like proto-group SMS messaging.
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Re:The origin of “tweet” at Twitter (2013) by thinkingemote on Thursday May 06, 2021 @04:06AM (#27060372)
Originally it was also a place to set your Instant messenger status message. Tweets were also called "statuses" for quite a while.

Some of the tweets in the article follow that

Thinkingemote "is thinking about triple tags today"

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Re:The origin of “tweet” at Twitter (2013) by slver on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @06:36PM (#27056697)
Let's make a 32 char Twitter...
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