alt Hacker NewsBest of luck to Craig. If you don't know who he is, he's the reason we call(ed) Twitter posts 'tweets' [1] and also wrote perhaps the first pre-SDK iPhone app from the outside [2].
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dang • today at 3:57 AM
Thanks for this, and sending love. The first one was discussed here (long after the fact):
The origin of “tweet” at Twitter (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27045787 - May 2021 (49 comments)
netsharc • today at 1:11 AM
Ah, I feel a kinship.. in 2007 I got an iPhone, followed the guide to install the homebrew SDK on Linux, and managed to get it to work to create iPhone apps. At first they'd run on jailbroken phones (there was a command to "sign" them), later I installed a Hackintosh and XCode and even got the Apple Dev program subscription and sold one app on their store.
> we call(ed) Twitter posts 'tweets'
Following the rename we can now call them Xits, the x being pronounced as in Chinese ('sh').
There’s a lot of xit-posting on X, after all.