Wednesday, 24 August 2011

Tweet Speak

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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