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by jonas21 1988 days ago
While Mastodon and Diaspora may be distinctly bad names, perhaps you don't need a great name either. Take Facebook, for example.

Even with Twitter, I think there are probably thousands of words that would sound as natural as "tweet" if people were constantly saying it (and shouldn't it be "twit" anyway?).

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The person with a twitter account could then be a ‘twat’
In the early days of Twitter, a guest asked Colbert if he'd used it and Colbert replied "I have twatted."