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This is small news, but I was amused by it. The AP Style Guide, which is a style bible for many people in journalism (or writing in general), announced several updates today.

Among those updates was Twitter. I suppose it is being referenced enough in the news now that it needed to be called out. According to Online Media Daily,

The guide notes that the microblogging service limits messages to short Tweets. The verb forms are “to Twitter” or “to Tweet.”

They go on to note that the AP Guide has also added entries for text: “to text,” “texted” and “texting.”

Considering that I often refer to either the AP Style Guide or the Microsoft Manual of Style (for tech writing), I’m amused these things are being settled.

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