Some Twitter terms from Twitter Fan Wiki
- Looking for Twitter's FAQ titled Lingo: The Official Commands? That's not this page.
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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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- 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.
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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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- Twittcrastination - avoiding action while Twittering, procrastination enabled by Twitter use
- Twadd - To add someone as a friend - mutual followers.
- Twaggle - A gaggle of followers.
- 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).
- 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
- 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!.
- Twhepherd - The Twitter employee that finds and restores lost followers to your twaggle.
- Twexplanation - Sending a nebulous tweet and having to explain it while offline from twitter.
- Twittercal mass - A community that has achieved a critical mass of twitterers.
- Tweet Pushers - Writers (guest bloggers) whose ideas and suggestions that will be featured at The Wall Tweet Journal www.walltweetjournal.com
- Tweetard - A twitter retard.
- Tweory - Twitter as applied to theory. See http://tweory.pbwiki.com
- 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.
- TwinkedIn - Inviting friends made on Twitter to "connect with you on LinkedIn"
- Twike - To ride a bike with twitter.
- Twis - To dis a fellow twitterer. Bad form.
- Twisticuffs - Fighting with a fellow twitterer over twitter.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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References
- What are people Twittering about? SF Gate. Dan Fost, Chronicle Staff Writer. March 19, 2007
- CW just coined Twoops
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