Elon Musk Renames “Twitter” and “Tweet” Button

Tweet is now replaced with post. (Photo: screenshot/ary/voi)

JAKARTA - Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter formerly known as a popular social networking company, recently announced plans to remove the "Twitter" brand altogether. The iconic blue bird sign for the platform has been removed in favor of a prominent X on the company's headquarters. In addition, the blue bird logo has also been removed from the Twitter website and application.

After some time, the "tweet" button on the Twitter platform briefly changed to "post," indicating that soon all traces of the bluebird and associated Twitter would be removed from every place within reach of the company now known as X.

Since its inception, many people have assumed that the term "tweet" refers to microblogging posts that are brief and reflect the art of cohesiveness in conveying messages. However, over time, Twitter began to allow more characters in a single "tweet" with the previous 140 character limit to 4,000 characters.

Even in Threads, another product of company X, the character limit is almost five times the original Twitter character limit. This has caused some people to feel that the term "tweet" is no longer appropriate and relates to the existing character limit.

Despite these changes, the main reason for discontinuing the use of the term "tweet" is not because of changes to the platform or the brand itself, but because the term has become increasingly irrelevant and less appropriate to use.

Some time ago, there was a suggestion to call all microblogging posts "tweets" to avoid the problem of awkward terms like "toots," "skeets," "threets," and "xeets." However, after several weeks of trying to use the term "tweet," many people felt that the word sounded silly and out of place.

As an alternative, many suggest replacing it with "post." While not as unique as "tweet," this term is simpler, doesn't involve intellectual property issues, and is easy to pronounce. Although it cannot completely replace its uniqueness, at least the term "post" is more relevant and in accordance with the current context.