The word "tweet" banished from the New York Times

The New York Times, the tweets are out of favor: the website The Awl relates to an internal memo written by the responsible standards of the newspaper, Phil Corbett, which sum his colleagues to stop using the term incorrectly and through.

"Some fans of social networks may not agree with that, but outside the context of bird, the word" tweet "is not part of standard English. Now it is standard English that we use in our products, "said Corbett, who also indicates that the word complained of appeared 18 times in the newspaper last month.

Phil Corbett proposes to his fellow journalists of "alternatives in plain English, as, for example, 'a Twitter message" or "write on Twitter. "Once you establish the connection with Twitter, just use words like" say "or" write ".

The tweets should disappear from the New York Times in favor of terms most "English" but less appropriate. It will not prevent the newspaper chirping about Twitter, where his account is followed by almost 2.5 million followers.