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[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

> I think this does quite a lot for clearing up the purpose of that field.
> But if you just look at that without prior/external knowledge, you still
> would have to ask: Say where? To whom?

I agree. In fact, seconds after sending the mockup I wondered if it
wouldn't confuse users into thinking it was a IM reply field, like
the gnome-shell message tray:

http://people.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/mockups/20090630/04-chat-details.png

As much as I hate to admit it (and God knows how much I do), I don't
think that there is a brand-neutral word as effective as that dreadful
word, "tweet".