Why does "to tweet" something on Twitter become つぶやく?


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I have noticed that when you post something on twitter they don't say 投稿する
_toukou suru_ , but instead say つぶやく (murmur).

Why did this happen?




Well in English Twitter doesn't use the word "Post" but "Tweet". Twitter's
translator decided to make it an equivalent word that would make sense to
someone who had never heard of it before.

Check out this J article covering the use of フォローする and つぶやく.
<http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0907/29/news054.html>




Well in English Twitter doesn't use the word "Post" but "Tweet". Twitter's
translator decided to make it an equivalent word that would make sense to
someone who had never heard of it before.

Check out this J article covering the use of フォローする and つぶやく.
<http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0907/29/news054.html>

