Welcome to Twictionary - a dictionary for Twitter!
A repository for all sorts of manglings of the English language as used on Twitter.
Please help contribute to this page. Send a direct message to twitter user ahockley or verso with your e-mail address (or just send an e-mail to ahockley@gmail.com) to be given permissions.
For now, this is going to be one big wiki page. Please add entries below as you discover or invent them. If you have a link to the first usage Tweet, all the better! You can use SUMMIZE to search for the first usage Tweet.
Twitter Definitions (words evolved from Twitter):
Term
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Definition |
First Used Tweet if known or best guess
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| egotwistical |
Tending to talk excessively about oneself on Twitter |
4braham |
| switch twitter |
Person maintaining multiple Twitter accounts |
toddmintz |
| twacklist |
Twitter + blacklist |
after The Twitter Blacklist |
| twacklog |
A backlog of tweets |
ahockley |
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twammer
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Twitter + spammer: someone that follows many people and post updates with links to web sites akin to those found in spam e-mails. |
martinbowling |
| twandle |
Twitter + handle: A Twitter username ("Hey man, what's your twandle?") |
kopper |
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twat
|
Person behind spam Twitter acct |
verso |
| twavatar |
Twitter avatar (user icon) |
xolotl? |
| twawkward |
Being awkward on Twitter |
ahockley |
| tweaten |
What happens to a tweet when Twitter (or a client app) eats it |
sarahgilbert |
| tweeotches |
Twitter + biotches (slang for bitches) |
monkchips |
| tweeps |
Twitter + peeps (friends) |
? |
| tweet |
n: single message seen on Twitter, v: act of posting to Twitter |
? |
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tweeting out
tweetheart(s)
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Saying goodbye and logging off Twitter
Twitter + Sweetheart(s)
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Clevecarole
possibly MailOurMilitary
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tweetspeak
tweetup
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"an effect of compulsive posting of tweets, causes excessive compression of thoughts to fit 140 characters"
Twitter + meetup: a gathering of folks based on a twitter conversation (often impromptu)
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aldaspook
?
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| tweezure |
Twitter seizure |
verso |
| tweople/tweeple |
Twitter + people |
? |
| twerminology |
the study of Twitter terminology |
xolotl |
| twhater |
A person who thinks Twitter is dumb |
rstevens |
| twhither/twither |
to ask/tell where one is going via Twitter |
xolotl |
| twiend |
Twitter + friend: you follow them and they follow you. |
kathrynjones |
| twinsight |
A new insight realized via Twitter.
|
selenamarie |
| twissues |
When twitter application has problems, is broken.
(It could have an alternate meaning: a person who thinks twitter is dumb or doesn't get twitter's usefulness and disparages those who use twitter could be called a twater (twitter hater), but they could also have twitter issues, or twissues.) |
wendemm |
| twitter squatter |
A person holding on to a twitter username in hope of some personal gain.
"i'm in ur twitr waitin 4 u" |
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| twitterati |
Twitter + literati (Origin is literati; the literary intelligentsia or educated class). |
possibly Susan Tenby |
| twitterfam |
an online term of endearment for your followers |
possibly geekycybermom |
| twitterluia |
Twitter + halleluia: an expression used when something verging on the miraculous has taken place and Twitter was there to see it happen. |
possibly davidcosand |
| twittermentia |
Being unable to remember prior to the last thing posted on Twitter |
selenamarie |
| twitterrhea |
A high volume, unpleasant and - occasionally - messy blast of tweets. Can sometimes be contagious. |
unfortunately, davidcosand |
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twittersation
twitterscuse
twitterspeak
twitterverse
twollector
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A conversation conducted on Twitter
One of the many reasons given for Twitter not operating correctly
Using language found only in Tweets, words not typically used in normal conversation
The body of Twitter users or community, similar to "blogosphere"
Twitter + collector: someone that follows as many others as they can, seemingly valuing the total number collected.
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Narses
nwjerseyliz
sharong
??
strandloper
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| twollower |
Twitter + follower: someone that follows you. If you followed them too they would be twiends.
|
dkr |
| twoutage |
Failure of one or another of Twitter's features. |
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| twunch |
Lunch - twitter style: loosly organised open invitation lunch meeting among twitter friends |
see www.twunch.be |
Other Terms (not from Twitter but often seen):
| Term |
Definition |
Source |
| DIAF |
short for Die In A Fire (presumably because there is an extra toasty spot reserved for them where they're going) |
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| FriendFeed |
One of the alternatives to Twitter that's gained traction as twoutages have increased |
friendfeed.com |
| FTW |
For The Win, enthusiasm or recommendation |
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| FTL |
For The Loss, complaint or disapproval |
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| LMK |
Let Me Know |
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| meatup |
A gathering (meetup) to eat steak |
ahockley |
| OH |
Overheard |
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| twingup |
An offline gathering to eat buffalo wings, said gathering being planned on Twitter |
ahockley |
| #word |
Used to "tag" a tweet for tracking topics or events. Follow @hashtags to make sure your tags get aggregated. |
hashtags |
| @name |
Addresses a tweet to a specific user or mentions them |
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* Edit note: To add a line to the table, right click the row and choose row, then insert row (before or after depending). Let's try to keep it as alphabetical as possible, shall we?
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