{"id":9476,"date":"2011-08-21T11:42:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T11:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/retweet_now_in_dictionary.html"},"modified":"2011-08-21T11:42:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T11:42:03","slug":"retweet-now-in-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/retweet-now-in-dictionary.html","title":{"rendered":"Retweet Now in Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a month for Twitter &#8211; On the first of August, TMCnet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/topics\/articles\/203323-womans-suicidal-tweets-result-her-rescue.htm\">reported<\/a> that a suicidal tweet resulted in a saved life and now, the term retweet has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/alltwitter\/retweet-oxford-english-dictionary_b12911\">added<\/a> to the Oxford English Dictionary. It is fantastic to see how tech terms have permeated our lexicon and I am wondering if the word &#8220;Xerox&#8221; which is often substituted for the word &#8216;copy&#8221; will eventually be replaced by retweet. Or perhaps it will be used like the word &#8220;recount&#8221; as time progresses.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the definition remains &#8211; forwarding a&nbsp; tweet to your followers via Twitter, having retweet in the dictionary is an awesome feat. <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"smiley-smile\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mt-static\/plugins\/TinyMCE\/lib\/jscripts\/tiny_mce\/plugins\/emotions\/img\/smiley-smile.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"smiley-smile\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a month for Twitter &#8211; On the first of August, TMCnet reported that a suicidal tweet resulted in a saved life and now, the term retweet has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. It is fantastic to see how tech terms have permeated our lexicon and I am wondering if the word &#8220;Xerox&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,118,217],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}