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I have noticed that when you post something on twitter they don't say 投稿する
_toukou suru_ , but instead say つぶやく (murmur).

Why did this happen?
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internet-slang
Why does "to tweet" something on Twitter become つぶやく?
Well in English Twitter doesn't use the word "Post" but "Tweet". Twitter's
translator decided to make it an equivalent word that would make sense to
someone who had never heard of it before.

Check out this J article covering the use of フォローする and つぶやく.
<http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0907/29/news054.html>
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According to
[Wikipedia](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#.E8.84.9A.E6.B3.A8),

That translation is done by [枝洋樹](http://twitter.com/#!/rockyeda) and the
English word "Tweet"'s direct translation to Japanese is さえずる but it is mainly
used for birds. He thought that closest one for human would be つぶやく.
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It's because つぶやく pretty much means "mutter to oneself" and that's what most
tweets end up being. Just talking by yourself.
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In case you are interested, the japanese social networking site MIXI also uses
つぶやく for it's status update / tweet like functionality
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