Twitter v/s Thotpurge

When thinking of a url for this website, what if the creators had chosen to go with a name like 'Thotpurge'? The url is available. Thotpurge is in a similar ballpark. So why didn't they go with the latter?

Maybe the name never occured to them. And even if it did, it might have thrown up in searches as this very well-written blog. But 'Thotpurge' is only a blog. It's not a full-fledged site. So they could have taken the name and drowned the little thing out.

Perhaps they wanted a unique name. In which case, it makes complete sense to go with 'Twitter'. That said, I do believe 'Thotpurge' is a more memorable name than the one they plumped for. 'Thotpurge' has a powerful word like purge in it. It's also a more active word than 'Twitter'. What it isn't, is twitter.

Twittering is a different kind of activity from thotpurging. A twitter is chattier than a thotpurge. Twittering feels like a more casual thing to do than purging. Blogging is more like thotpurging. Twittering is closer to sharing. Purging feels like something you do without bothering about whether anybody is recieving your inputs or not. All this leads me to believe that's why the creator or 'twitter' chose to go with it.

I'm guessing the people behind 'twitter' wanted it to be a social activity site, a hangout, a chatroom of sorts. Purging is not that kind of thing. Purging is aggressive. Twittering is not. Interesting call. This naming business is a nuanced one, isn't it? Think about it. Carefully. Better still, leave it to me.

Twitter
Stop-start scale: 6/10
Long and Short cut: 7/10
Story meme: 7/10
Übertotal: 20/30

Thotpurge
Stop-start scale: 7/10
Long and Short cut: 6/10
Story meme: 5/10
Übertotal: 18/30