@ceoln
Yeah, the official term is "status", both on twitter and here on Mastodon, but nobody uses that term except the programmers.
When I first read the user documentation it keep using the term "status update" and I had no idea what they were talking about, because they never defined what the word "status" was anywhere in the documentation.
Programmers are usually lousey documentation writters.
Also, see this recent thread:
https://qoto.org/@freemo/109266091115928999