Twitter is set to officially enter the Collins English Dictionary as both a noun and verb, when the 30th anniversary edition is published later this year. The entry under noun will read: "a
website where people can post short messages about their current activities" and under verb it will read: "to write short messages on the Twitter website". Other Twitter-related words, like
Twitterati, which refers to the site's users, will also be entered, as will
Twitterverse, which refers to the Web site and its users.
Elaine Higgleton, Collins
editorial director, told the
Daily Mail: "Hardly a day goes by when you don't see some Twitter-related article. Hence I find it entirely unsurprising that this year we have not one
Twitter-related entry in the dictionary, but three."
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