toot
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toot was a humorous term for a note post in Mastodon that had its origins in a 2008 Twitter joke by Merlin Mann, suggested for adoption in Mastodon by Hbomberguy & officially adopted by Mastodon into its user experience in 2016, and finally removed in 2021.
Mastodon was originally called tootsuite.
Timeline
- 2008-02-23 by Merlin Mann — 'toot' term as humorous parody of tweet:
which Merlin also uses on his contact success page, since 2014-02-17:"Toot" is SO much better than "tweet." Trying it on, starting now. Glad I tooted.
Toot me at @hotdogsladies on Twitter if I missed your note. Thanks.
- 2016-11-22 by Hbomberguy:
@Gargron If you replace publish with toot I will immediately support your patreon for ever
- 2021-04-21 Eugen: Change the nouns "toot" and "status" to "post" #16080
Debates
The renaming of toots to posts caused a lot of debate, beyond the citations above:
- https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/mastodon-to-replace-terminology-of-toots-and-status-with-post/1627
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26882318