Monocolumn: Tweet with a little respect

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monocle.com 17 Aug '12, 11am

Monocolumn: Tweet with a little respect

Just over six years ago Jack Dorsey sent his first message on what you might, at the time, have wanted to call a “microblog”. It read “just setting up my twttr” and without anyone realising it, the world was already on its way to a new phenomenon in modern social interaction. Granted, a word like “microblog” would hardly wedge in the mind. But even after Dorsey decided to humanise his new creation by adding a couple of vowels to literally spell out the word “Twitter”, he had already fallen into a trap familiar to many a tech entrepreneur â finishing a great idea with a playful moniker forever wedded to its geeky origins. I understand the word fits â for all its strengths Twitter is awash with voices twittering on about not very much at all. It is the perfect label for a system of short, random updates among a connected group of sociable tech-savvies, keen to share thou...

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@hrbnd » 21 Aug '12, 5pm
This. 'Tweet with a little respect' #monocolumn [link]
@toaf » 18 Aug '12, 11am
RT @monoclebrief Monocolumn: Tweet with a little respect [link]
@monoclebrief » 17 Aug '12, 10pm
Monocolumn: Tweet with a little respect [link]
@Brilliantcrank » 17 Aug '12, 8pm
Monocle reminds everyone of their disdain for Twitter. [link]
@LeanneForshaw » 17 Aug '12, 1pm
Has Twitter outgrown its moniker..? [link] "Tweet somehow undermines the strength of the medium"
@12yearswild » 17 Aug '12, 12pm
RT @paulrgn: An appropriate first tweet? Maybe. A little piece on Monocle 24 about #twitter: [link]
@1ditorial » 17 Aug '12, 11am
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@cj_apes » 19 Aug '12, 11am
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@mistermccall » 17 Aug '12, 1pm
'Tweet with a little respect.' [link]