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 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!
Twitter Definitions (words evolved from Twitter):
Term
|
Definition |
First Used Tweet if known or best guess
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switch twitter |
Person maintaining multiple Twitter accounts |
toddmintz |
twacklog |
A backlog of tweets |
ahockley |
twat |
Person behind spam Twitter acct |
verso |
twavatar |
Twitter avatar (user icon) |
xolotl? |
twawkward |
Being awkward on Twitter |
ahockley |
tweeotches |
Twitter + biotches (slang for bitches) |
monkchips |
tweeps |
Twitter + peeps (friends) |
? |
tweet |
n: single message seen on Twitter, v: act of posting to Twitter |
? |
tweetup |
Twitter + meetup: a gathering of folks based on a twitter conversation (often impromptu) |
? |
tweezure |
Twitter seizure |
verso |
tweople/tweeple |
Twitter + people |
? |
twitterati |
Twitter + literati (Origin is literati; the literary intelligentsia or educated class). |
? |
twittermentia |
Being unable to remember prior to the last thing posted on Twitter |
selenamarie |
Other Terms (not from Twitter but often seen):
Term |
Definition |
Source |
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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#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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