Looks like Twitter has taken a further step into being totally integrated into todays world. A few days ago it was announced that Twitter would be entering the English Dictionary.

Considering how often Twitter is reported in newspapers and television, it really isn’t a big surprise. Though it does show the overwhelming growth of the site in the last year.

Elaine Higgleton, from Dictionary company Collins , 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.

Source : Twitter gains entry in dictionary

Jordan McCollum noticed today that Twitter is now displayed ads on the Twitter home page just under a users follow and follower count.

There is not any announcements yet about this but it looks like they are testing the waters with an advertisement in that area of the page. Text ads, being less intrusive than a lot of other ad formats, are a good choice for Twitter in my opinion. I don’t think many people would mind a small text ad on the side of their Twitter bar.

I don’t know if anyone is credited with creating the word “Tweet” but it seems to have been synonymous with Twitter since the start. So many Twitter scripts and Twitter related websites use the word “Tweet” in their domain name because of this, including this one.

Twitter is obviously aware of this so they have taken steps to trademark the word :

We have applied to trademark Tweet because it is clearly attached to Twitter from a brand perspective but we have no intention of “going after” the wonderful applications and services that use the word in their name when associated with Twitter. In fact, we encourage the use of the word Tweet. However, if we come across a confusing or damaging project, the recourse to act responsibly to protect both users and our brand is important.

So it seems that they are happy for people to use the word “Tweet” on their websites, as long as it is used in a responsible manner and isn’t hurting the Twitter brand in any way.

Link : May The Tweets Be With You

Sadly veteren actress Mollie Sugden died yesterday at the age of 86. Mollie was best known for her character Mrs Slocombe in the 1970s BBC sitcom ‘Are You Being Served?’. Though her passing has caused a minor bit of a stir on Twitter.

One of the running jokes on ‘Are You Being Served?’ was Mrs Slocombes references to her pussy (i.e. her cat!), a classic sexual innuendo misundertanding.

To pay his respects, TV presenter Johnathan Ross left this tweet :

The tag #MrsSlocombesPussy proved to be very popular because of this tweet with lots of Twitter users using it to pay their respects.

Clearly the people who work in the Twitter spam department are not familar with Mollie or ‘Are You Being Served?’ as they promptly banned the tag from the trending topics. I can understand how someone who was not familar with the joke could misintepret the trend as some sort of spam campaign but it does illustrate that the current system is far from perfect.

I will leave you with a classic montage of Mollies classic character Mrs Slocombe and her well known catchphrase. Enjoy