Boo! I've always hated the term Web 2.0 and wished it would go away. That's not happening, obviously, now that the Global Language Monitor — no, I had never heard of it either — has decreed that Web 2.0 is now and forever the 1 millionth "English word or phrase."

"It has crossed from technical jargon into far wider circulation in the last six months," the organization said last week.

It has also jumped the shark, given that those on the cutting edge of Internet innovation are busy arguing about its successor. Witness the ongoing dustup between the Wall Street Journal's Kara Swisher and blogging institution Robert Scoble over the use — or not — of Web 3.0. He's against it — "The Web does NOT have version numbers" — while she … oh, never mind, it's all too tedious for words.

Web 2.0 was not the only tech-related word to be in the running for the honor of being No. 1,000,000: Cloud computing, defriend, sexting and N00b finished among the runners-up.

How tweet got snubbed is anybody's guess.