@ThinkGeek has a New T-Shirt Just for Twits

In the online world, we're all about taking language and mucking with it. Fortunately, the era of appending the letters E or I to the beginning of every word has passed, and now we're on to the decade of optional vowels and reclaiming words to make them mean something entirely different. That's what Twitter is all about. It's appropriate; at only 140 characters it only allows users to warble a bit before they're silent again, much like a songbird going on about its mating rituals and what's for lunch.

Those in the know identify "twitter" as the interface. The correct terminology for the act of sending something is "tweet." According to the OED (the Oxford English Dictionary, our dictionary of choice -- its unofficial motto: "Why settle for just one volume?"), tweet's venture into the proverbial territory of the verb began in 1851. It had only been written down as a noun 6 years earlier, so that's a pretty quick jump between parts of speech. Presumably eventually the verb entry will be modified to indicate that in 2006/2007 "to tweet" meant to send 140 characters or less via device agnostic interface to a specified group of individuals. But by the time it gets incorporated, we'll probably be checking it via our own personal bio-integrated computer systems.

Annnd we're just going to act like "tweeple" didn't happen. K? Good.

"i'm tweeting this" in a Twitter-esque blue and white font on a black, cotton babydoll (fitted) t-shirt.