Twitter Enters the Dictionary

Twitter has come along way since “Dorsey, Stone and Williams co-founded Obvious which then spun off Twitter”

So much so that the Telegraph reports that the word Twitter will enter the dictionary this year. It will be defined as

“a website where people can post short messages about their current activities” and under verb it will read: “to write short messages on the Twitter website”

For a social networking package that it is at the hub of most of my web activities and the definition, though factually correct does not get the emotional side of twitter. Twitter for me is my conversation, it is my coach, my friend, my pr person, my helper…..

I think the most striking fact for me, is how quickly this word has become part of our language when in reality only a small % of the global population uses it or even knows what it is….It shows how the internet is speeding up the way we live, the way we communicate, the time it takes to create a worldwide brand.