New York Times bans use of the word "tweet"

[delphipsmith]

Call me a Luddite, but I'm rather pleased about this:

"Someday, 'tweet' may be as common as 'e-mail,' " wrote Phil Corbett, the Times' standards editor, in a memo this week, according to The Awl. But, for now, Corbett has nixed further use of the word -- "outside of ornithological contexts," he wrote.
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