Twitter Generates Many New Words In 2009 Says Oxford English Dictionary

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It is interesting to note that Twitter, not Google or Facebook, has the most enriched the English vocabulary with a number of words. The fact that the word Twitter contains "Twit" makes it all the easier. Google is too complicated to associate with other terms and Facebook is itself an association of two words already.

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