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Since pretty much its inception, Twitter has asked you to “update” your status, whether by web, by application, or by text.

An important moment, at least symbolically, in the ascent of any hot web startup is when it becomes so mainstream that people start using it as a verb – or a noun, as the case may be.

Sometimes, the startup becomes so successful that it even enters the dictionary, and that’s exactly what Twitter has done today, as we’ve learned that it will be added to the next edition of the Collins English Dictionary.

Yesterday, we noted that “Web 2.0” had been recognized as the “one millionth English word” by The Global Language Monitor.

Today, the AP Stylebook, which you might remember from journalism classes, has officially added Twitter.