If you are unsure what "Twitter" is let alone a "Tweet", this handy guide will give you some insight into the language of the social media phenomenon that is Twitter.
At Reply or "@reply": a direct tweet sent to another Twitter user.
Dweet: Tweet sent while drunk
Hash Tag: The "#" sign. Allows Twitter users to group tweet by topic, making it easier to search particular conversations using Twitter search.
Link: Including a URL in your tweet.
Mistweet: A tweet one later regrets.
ReTweet: To repost something that's already in the Twitter stream, Usually preceded by "RT" and "@[username]," to give credit to the original poster.
SnapTweet: A tweet that includes a photo taken with a cell phone, uploaded to Flickr and posted to Twitter via snaptweet.com
Twittcrastination: Procrastination brought on by Twitter use.
Twadd: To add someone as a friend or follower.
Tweeter/Twitterer: Someone who uses Twitter.
Twittectomy: To remove someone from the list of people you follow.
Twitterati: The A-list twitterers everyone follows.
Twitterfly: Twitter's version of a social butterfly, marked by the extreme use of @signs.
Twitterlooing: Twittering from the bathroom
Twitterpated: Overwhelmed with Twitter messages.
Twapplications: Twitter applications.
Tweeple: Twitter people, Twitter members, Twitter users.
Tweeps: Twitter people that follow each other from one social media/network to another.
Tweet(ing): The act of posting to Twitter
Tweets: Posts on Twitter by twitterers.
Tweetup: When twitterers meet in person - a Twitter meet up.
Twis: to dis a fellow twitterer, very bad form
Twitosphere: The community of twepple.
Twitterer: The use of Twitter
Twittering: To send a Twitter message.
Twitterlinkr: a service collecting the best links posted through Twitter.
Twittermob: an unruly and ragtag horde of people who descend on an ill-prepared location after a provacative Twitter message.
Twittermaps: A mashup technology that lets Twitter uses find each other using google maps.
Data: Twitter Fan Wiki
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