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[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Most people these days refer to them as posts, toots is older Mastodon linguo.

[–] thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca 4 points 18 hours ago
[–] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 16 hours ago

Etymologically, I think the word "tweet" was slowly being supplanted by "post" even before Twitter's name was officially changed to X. After all, "post" is universal, and there were many uses of thingposting that go back years, even on Twitter itself.