David Cameron once famously voiced his disgust at the incessant use of Twitter in a 2009 radio interview, but that hasn't stopped the word 'tweet' officially entering the English language.
'Tweet' - to post a message to Twitter - has been included in the hallowed pages of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Although the word 'tweet' is already in the OED in relation to bird song, it now has an additional official definition in the June 2013 edition.
Twitter is an online phenomenon, with 340 million tweets posted every day. Even the Pope, known as the voice of God, and the Dalai Lama have Twitter feeds.
Because Twitter has become such an important part of daily life in such a short space of time, the dictionary's editors were willing to bend their own rules to include 'tweet' in the OED, the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language.
DailyMail
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