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Aalcotwittic twitter addicton

• 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.

Twitterectomy - cutting twitter out of one's life for a period of time because twitter is taking up too much time.

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.

Twitterology - The study of all things Twitter. (coined by @wsfrontporch)

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.

Twittiquette - Using proper etiquette on twitter, spamming a bunch of tweets at once is bad twittiquette. 

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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