Re: verb forms related to Twitter ?

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

I find nothing about using Tweet as a verb in the "Guidelines for Use
of the Twitter Trademark."

I do, however, find a lowercase use of tweet as a verb in their FAQ:

https://support.twitter.com/groups/32-something-s-not-working/topics/119-tweet-dm-problems/articles/20169444-i-can-t-tweet-from-the-web

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> wrote:
> Monique's inquiring mind wants to know about
>>
>> capitalized “Tweeted”.
>
> The question is one of trademark usage. Properly applied, a trademark is
> always an adjective, never a noun or a very. It's a Xerox copier, and you
> don't Xerox something, you make a Xerox copy of it.
>
> So we might imagine that it's the Twitter tweeting service, and I suppose
> you can tweet, or have tweeted, or be about to tweet all you want to, but
> you don't Tweet, and cannot have Tweeted, even if you did so using the
> Twitter Corporation's facilities.
>
> All that is, however, totally at odds with Twitter's stated view:
>
> http://support.twitter.com/entries/77641
>
> It appears that they are trying to cut new pathways within the field of
> trademark law. They say you cannot use misspellings of their trademarks. The
> resulting discussion of verb forms goes into areas I cannot even bring
> myself to mention.
>
> One of the difficulties the item's current uniqueness. There is no obvious
> generic term. (Perhaps that's merely a confession that I cannot think of
> one.)
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