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To Twee
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April 30, 2010
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I'm still using Twitter, for better or worse. But I realized today that I quite frequently abort my tweets before posting them, usually due either to mounting ennui or anticipatory shame.

Therefore, I hereby coin the following:

"To twee" is to type something into Twitter but then not post it.

I considered just tweeting this, but...

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I think "twee" makes it hard to intuit that it's an aborted tweet--maybe twennui?

There's a whole extra class of abandoned tweets for when I realize that I can't fit what I'm trying to say into 140 characters, but it's not worth a blog post.

Will Hankinson on April 30, 2010 12:18 AM

A scaled-down and sped-up version of the scenario where one writes an angry email and then pauses and thinks better of it before hitting "send"?

Mark N. on April 30, 2010 3:50 AM

Will, I thought about offering a retort but then decided not to.

Ian Bogost on April 30, 2010 10:08 AM

"Will, I thought about offering a retort but then decided not to."
Surely that is a retwort?

Can't wait to find a use for "twee'sprit de l'escalier"

Erik on May 6, 2010 7:13 PM
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