• Photonic@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    How is it any more stupid than a tweet? That was pretty mass marketable, I would say.

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      2 months ago

      Because tweet never had any negative connotations before Twitter took it on. It’s the sound a bird makes. Toot is slang for farting which doesn’t have the greatest associations. It’s also like skeet for blue sky. I get why the owners wouldn’t want a word that has a whole and common on their platform community that knows that word as slang for ejaculation.