
382: ‘What’s Happening‽’, With Craig Hockenberry
The Talk Show With John Gruber
The Importance of Nouns in Common Language
Twitter got lucky with the name change. Twitter didn't have tweet as a verb or noun, they didn't have a bird logo. The stupidity of it is he started thinking about how many things in common language are both nouns and verbs in like a product,. It's like Google. There's Xerox. Yep. There's Instagram to some point, Instagram, you know, sort of. But there are many.
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