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October 16, 2025

Re(blog, tweet, toot, skoot, skeеt, post)

Railroad diagram of “reblogging” synonyms

Have you noticed the similar terms used for sharing someone else's content with attribution from your own account? Reblogging was the original term for “blogging” another user's content, first developed by project “reBlog” and popularized by Tumblr. Remember that “blog” is a truncation of “weblog” (... should it have been ’blog to capture the shortening?)

Read more: https://sethmlarson.dev/reblog-tweet-toot-skoot-skeet

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