When Twitter’s founders sought a name for the platform, they considered Jitter and Twitch before settling on ‘twitter’, first used in English by Chaucer Posts on Twitter were at first called Twitterings; shortening this to twit, meaning a jibe or a fool, wasn’t on, hence tweet. Dictionary editors soon took note
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From Chaucer via Jitter and Twitch, how Twitter got its name – South China Morning Post
