{"id":67993,"date":"2022-11-28T23:45:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T23:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=67993"},"modified":"2022-11-28T23:45:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T23:45:12","slug":"from-chaucer-via-jitter-and-twitch-how-twitter-got-its-name-and-why-posts-were-called-tweets-not-twits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=67993","title":{"rendered":"From Chaucer via Jitter and Twitch, how Twitter got its name \u2013 and why posts were called tweets, not twits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostTwitter\u2019s founders considered calling the service Jitter and Twitch before settling on its current name \u2013 but deciding what to call posts on the platform was trickier.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/magazines\/post-magazine\/short-reads\/article\/3201208\/chaucer-jitter-and-twitch-how-twitter-got-its-name-and-why-posts-were-called-tweets-not-twits?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostTwitter\u2019s founders considered calling the service Jitter and Twitch before settling on its current name \u2013 but deciding what to call posts on the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":67994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}