Thursday, April 15, 2010

Twitters term to know

Twitterspeak: 66 Twitter Terms

Never read a twiller? Having twissues with your twerminology? Welcome, then, to the unforgivable abuse of the English language that some call Twitterspeak.
The trick, in most instances, is to take the first two letters of microblogging service Twitter() and meld them, often unwillingly, to the front of your chosen word. These ungainly neologisms are so numerous that they now require at least two sites to track them: Twictionary and Twittonary.
The List
The latter, Twittonary, forces you to click through every letter of the alphabet methodically, despite the fact that most letters lack a single entry. Time saver: here’s the full list, with our suggestions below:
A-S
adventuritter: an adventurous twitterer

beetweet: a buzzing tweet; a “hot” tweet

co-twitterer: a partner that tweets on your Twitter account.

dweet: tweet sent while intoxicated

drive-by-tweet: a quick post inbetween tasks

friendapalooza: a quick burst of friend-adding

mistweet: a tweet in which one later regrets

neweeter: a new tweeter

occasionitter: an occasional tweeter

politweeter: a political tweeter

politweet: a political tweet

qwitter: a tool used to catch twitter quitters- UseQuitter.com

reportwitters: reporter style twitterers

sweeple: sweet twitter people

Twa-
twadd: to add/follow someone to your Twitter account as a friend.

twaffic: Twitter traffic.

twaiting: twittering while waiting.

twalking: walking while twittering via text.

twapplications: Twitter applications.

Twe-
twead: to read a tweet from a fellow twitterer.

tweepish: feeling sheepish or regretful about something you tweeted.

tweeple: Twitter people, Twitter members, Twitter users.

tweeps: Twitter people that follow each other from one social media/network to another.

tweetaholism: the continued use of Twitter as an addiction that is difficult to control.

tweetaholic: someone addicted to Twitter, so much so that it may be an actual problem.

tweet-back: bringing a previous tweet conversation or reference back into the current conversation.

tweet-dropping: eavesdropping on someone else’s home page in friends mode.

tweeter: a user of Twitter.

tweeterboxes: twitterers who tweet too much.

tweetheart: that special tweeter who makes your heart skip a beat.

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 – a Twitter meet up.

Twi-
twideo-cronicity: when you’re watching someone’s videos and they are simultaneously leaving a comment or tweet for/at/about you.

twiking: biking while twittering via text.

twinkedIn: inviting friends made on Twitter to connect with you on LinkedIn().

twis: to dis a fellow twitterer. very bad form.

twitosphere: community of twitterers.

twittastic: fantastic, wonderful, superb.

twittcrastination: avoiding action while twittering, procrastination enabled by Twitter use.

twittduit: If you need to tweet a friend that does not follow you, post a twittduit asking your followers to pass a message.

twittectomy: an unfollowing of friends.

twitter-light zone: where you are when you return to Twitter after any time away and feel disoriented and lost.

twitter stream: a collection of tweets often times in alphabetical order

twitosphere: the community of twepple.

twitterati: The A-list twitterers.

twittercal mass: a community that has achieved a critical mass of twitterers.

twitterer: a user of Twitter (compare: tweeter).

twittering: to send a Twitter message.

twitterish: erractic behavior with short outbursts.

twitteritas: women who play with their twitters.

twitterness: a person’s contribution to the twitosphere.

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 through 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.

twitterage: rage at a twitter post.

twitterrhea: the act of sending too many Twitter messages.

cf http://mashable.com/2008/11/15/twitterspeak/

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