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- At reply or "@reply" - a tweet that is directed to a fellow Twitter user. Can be a statement or question.
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- Drunktwittering - Similar to drunk dialing.
- Dweet - Tweet sent while drunk
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- Failwhale- the whale held up by birds and string that shows that Twitter has crashed. In danger of extinction, but still seen from time to time.
- Friendapalooza - A scheduled burst of friend-adding on Twitter and other social networks.
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Hash Tag - the "#" sign which allows Twitters users to group their tweet with a particular event or conversation. The hash tag makes it easier to search that particular conversation on TwitterSearch. The hash tag is used like this: #pbwiki
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iltwitterate - not understanding Twitter (coined by @jasonmitchener on January 1, 2009)
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Link - Tiny URL for Twitter Glossary http://tinyurl.com/2f9pq7
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Mistweet - A tweet one later regrets. See here: http://urltea.com/gs7
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ReporTwitters - bunch of journalists publishing 'reality style' tweets in conjunction with their articles.
ReTweet - to re-post something that someone already posted to their Twitter stream. Usually proceeded with "RT" and "@username" at the beginning of the post to give credit to the person who originally posted.
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SnapTweet - snapping a mobile photo, uploading to Flickr, and using http://snaptweet.com to post it to your Twitter stream
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Twactor - someone who pretends to be a real life identity on Twitter.
Twittcrastination - avoiding action while Twittering, procrastination enabled by Twitter use
Twadd - To add someone as a friend - mutual followers.
Twaggle - A gaggle of followers.
Twals- people you become pals with via twitter (coined by @collmiller)
Twaigslist - To sell something via twitter. Also Twebay.
Twaiting - Twittering while waiting
Twaffic - Twitter traffic.
Twardware - Twitter hardware.
Twashdot - News for twitterers. Stuff that doesn't matter.
Twaunt - To taunt someone over twitter.
Twead - To read a twitter.
Twebay - To offer something for sale via twitter. Also Twaigslist.
Tweekend - Spending your entire Saturday and Sunday reading and posting via Twitter. (coined by Kim M. Bayne )
Tweeple - Twitter people, Twitter members, Twitter users
Tweepish - Feeling sheepish or regretful about something you tweeted.
Tweeps - Twitterites that follow each other from one social media/network to another.
Twease - A person who teases people over Twitter.
Tweet-back - Bringing a previous tweet conversation or reference back into the current conversation.
Tweet-dropping - Eavesdropping on someone's else's Home Page in With Friends mode.
Tweetaholism - the continued use of Twitter as an addiction that is difficult to control
Tweeter - A user of Twitter (compare: Twitterer).
Tweet - Not only a message on Twitter but another term for a Twitter user (often jokingly mistaken for a Twit).
Tweet Pushers - Writers (guest bloggers) whose ideas and suggestions that will be featured at The Wall Tweet Journal www.walltweetjournal.com
Tweeterboxes - Twitterers who tweet too much
Tweetheart - that special someone who makes your heart skip a beat
Tweether - Where lost tweets go to die. coined by Damon Clinkscales
TweetIn - When a group of twitterers agree to get together at a set time to twitter
Tweet(ing) - The act of posting to Twitter
Tweetard - A twitter retard.
Tweets - Posts on Twitter by twitterers.
Tweetsulted, Tweetsult - What do you think it means, you dumb twitterer?
TweetUp - When twitterers meet in person in one's home nest. Example: Denver TweetUp in May. TweetUps - The meeting place for all Twitterers to TweetUp!.
Tweory - Twitter as applied to theory. Seehttp://tweory.pbwiki.com
Twermit - One who doesn't tweet very often but follows the conversations.
Twexplanation - Sending a nebulous tweet and having to explain it while offline from twitter.
Twhepherd - The Twitter employee that finds and restores lost followers to your twaggle.
Twittercal mass- A community that has achieved a critical mass of twitterers.
Twibute - To pay tribute to s.o. on Twitter; to give praise, to make a compliment etc. (Example)
Twideo-cronicity - When you're watching someone's videos and they are simultaneously leaving a comment or tweet for/at/about you.
Twike - To ride a bike with twitter.
TwinkedIn - Inviting friends made on Twitter to "connect with you on LinkedIn"
Twis - To dis a fellow twitterer. Bad form.
Twisticuffs - Fighting with a fellow twitterer over twitter.
Twitch - When you tweet a typo causing you to tweet a correction before getting a load of replies. (coined by @MattPenner)
Twiterature - Quotes from literature on twitter. Marked by #twiterature. It's a Thing.
Twitosphere - Community of twitterers
Twittastic - Fantastic, wonderful, superb; coined by the folks at Twitterholic when referring to their robots
Twittcrastination - Twittering as a form of procrastination
Twittduit - If you need to Tweet a friend that does not follow you, post a Twittduit asking your followers to pass a message.
Twitter-Light Zone - Where you are when you return to Twitter after any time away and feel disoriented and lost.
Twitterati - The glamorous A-List twitterer's everyone wants to follow.
Twitterbate - To masturbate to another user's tweets.
Twitterer - A user of Twitter (compare: Tweeter).
Twittectomy - unfollowing friends
Twittering - To send a Twitter message.
Twitterish - Erractic behavior with short outbursts.
Twitteritas - Women who play with their twitters.
Twittfeinated, Twigged Out, Twired - To be so hyped up on twittering that you cannot sleep
Twitterfly - Being a social butterfly on Twitter evidenced by extreme usage of @ signs.
Twitterject - Interject your tweet into an existing tweet stream of conversation.
Twitter-ku - Those who either post on both Twitter and Jaiku or load their Twitter feed into Jaiku.
Twitterlibrium - The amount of following_me and followers_you is equal. Coined by @20sth . It's a Thing.
TwitterLinkr - A service collecting the best links posted trough Twitter
Twitterlooing - Twittering from a bathroom.
Twitterloop - To be caught up with friend tweets and up on the conversation.
Twittermob - An unruly and ragtag horde of people who descend on an ill-prepared location after a provocative Twitter message.
Twittermaps - A mashup technology that lets Twitter users find each other using Google maps.
Twitterpated - To be overwhelmed with Twitter messages. Or to have a brief, but intense crush on another Twitter user.
Twitterphoria - The elation you feel when the person you've added as a friend adds you back.
Twitterrhea - The act of sending too many Twitter messages.
Twitterrific and Twitteroo - Two services that let users post to Twitter using a Mac or PC.
Twitterrific (2) - a really good Twitter thing
Twitterstream - the twitter timeline (public or friends)
Twittertories - Clusters of twittererers that follow and friend each other with little overlap with other clusters.
Twittonary - dictionary of twitter terminology
Twittertude - Bad Twitter attitude. Or a state of being, like solitude only with other people present.
Twittfessional - A confession made on Twitter
Twitticisms - Witty tweets
Twittilate - To arouse with tweets.
Twittish - Too skittish to twitter.
Twittsomnia - Twittering due to inability to sleep, thus compounding inability to sleep.
Twittworking - Networking with Twitterites using Twitter
Twixt and tween - Can't decide who or what to tweet
Twhiner - A twitterer who only ever posts whiney, negative tweets
Twode - To hack on the twitter API.
Twofor - Replying to two unrelated twitter msgs with a single tweet
TwoingTwoing - To twitter about wonderful things.
Twlocked - To be twitter blocked - similar to writers block but with more stress
Twoogle - Twitter as the human Google. Pose a question, get near-instantaneous results. The Wall Tweet Journal
Tword - Words formed by appending "Tw" to the original word (like most words in this list).
Twoops - When you accidentally send a private sms to Twitter
Twoosh - A full 140 character twitter.
Twopsies - When you drop things because you are twittering.
Twouche - Someone acting like a big fat jerk via twitter.
Twurvey - A survey sent out over Twitter
Twype - To type a twitter
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Web widget - stand alone function you can embed in other applications.
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References
What are people Twittering about? SF Gate. Dan Fost, Chronicle Staff Writer. March 19, 2007
CW just coined Twoops
Also see
Twitter Descriptions
Twitter Etiquette
Twictionary
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