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
|
Definition |
First Used Tweet if known or best guess
|
switch twitter |
Person maintaining multiple Twitter accounts |
toddmintz |
twacklist |
Twitter + blacklist |
after The Twitter Blacklist |
twacklog |
A backlog of tweets |
ahockley |
twammer |
Twitter + spammer: someone that follows many people and post updates with links to web sites akin to those found in spam e-mails. |
martinbowling |
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 |
? |
tweetheart(s) |
Twitter + Sweetheart(s) |
possibly MailOurMilitary |
tweetup |
Twitter + meetup: a gathering of folks based on a twitter conversation (often impromptu) |
? |
tweezure |
Twitter seizure |
verso |
tweople/tweeple |
Twitter + people |
? |
twerminology |
the study of Twitter terminology |
xolotl |
twetiquette |
Twitter + etiquette: rules (still very much in development) for constructing and responding to "tweets" |
n3m6 (?) |
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 |
twitter squatter |
A person holding on to a twitter username in hope of some personal gain.
"i'm in ur twitr waitin 4 u" |
|
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 |
twollector |
Twitter + collector: someone that follows as many others as they can, seemingly valuing the total number collected. |
strandloper |
twollower |
Twitter + follower: someone that follows you. If you followed them too they would be twiends.
|
dkr |
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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FTW |
For The Win, enthusiasm or recommendation |
|
FTL |
For The Loss, complaint or disapproval |
|
LMK |
Let Me Know |
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meatup |
A gathering (meetup) to eat steak |
ahockley |
OH |
Overheard |
|
#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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