birdsite

English

Logo of Twitter

Etymology

From bird +‎ site, referencing the company's logo depicting a blue bird.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜːdˌsaɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜɹdˌsaɪt/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
• Hyphenation: bird‧site

Proper noun

the birdsite

2. (Internet slang) Synonym of bird app.
   • 2018 September 10, Gretchen McCulloch, “Welcome to Voldemorting, the Ultimate SEO Dis”, in WIRED‎^[1], archived from the original on 21 November 2018:

     "I'm so tired of all the bad news on birdsite."
     "Yeah, there's just too much about The Cheeto."
     Cheeto and birdsite might not be common vocabulary, but the phrases are strangely interpretable. It's easy to jump from Cheeto to Donald Trump or from birdsite to Twitter.

   • 2022 November 14, Stephen Shankland, “I Want to Like Mastodon. The Decentralized Network Isn't Making That Easy”, in CNET‎^[2], archived from the original on 9 February 2023:

     It's a bit more familiar for people moving from "the birdsite," as Mastodon users often call Twitter.

   • 2022 November 21, Joseph Bernstein, “Chaos on Twitter Leads a Group of Journalists to Start an Alternative”, in The New York Times‎^[3], archived from the original on 23 March 2023:

     “I am having a hard time letting go of the birdsite but I was raised by an alcoholic so I understand what a trauma bond is,” the political journalist Ana Marie Cox wrote on journa.host on Nov. 20.

   • 2023, Chris Minnick, Michael McCallister, Mastodon for Dummies, page 75:

     Always remember where you are when you're posting. It's easy to fall into bad habits, especially after spending years on the birdsite, also known as Twitter.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:birdsite.

Derived terms

• birdshite

Related terms

• bird app