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 |
pleshette-ed |
Pecked to death (as by Suzanne Pleshette in "The Birds") by replies on Twitter |
hodgman |
switch twitter |
Person maintaining multiple Twitter accounts |
toddmintz |
twacklist |
Twitter + blacklist |
after The Twitter Blacklist |
twacklog |
A backlog of tweets |
ahockley |
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 |
twang |
A tweet from someone in the South. ("Right nice twang y'all posted there, @billybob.") |
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twat
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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 |
twedia |
Media on Twitter (e.g. @nytimes, @bbcnews, etc.) |
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tweeotches |
Twitter + biotches (slang for bitches) |
monkchips |
tweeps |
Twitter + peeps (friends) |
? |
tweet |
n: single message seen on Twitter, v: act of posting to Twitter |
? |
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 |
? |
twequilibrium |
When your number of followers exactly matches the number of people you follow |
DavidFeng |
twerminology |
the study of Twitter terminology |
xolotl |
twerp |
Anyone who doesn't play nice on Twitter. |
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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.
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kathrynjones |
twiller |
A thriller written via Twitter |
Matt Richtel, New York Times blogger |
twinsight |
A new insight realized via Twitter. Also: an incident in which two people post the exact same
tweet at the exact same time.
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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 |
twitcrush |
Declaring a crush on another twitter user. |
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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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twitebate
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A debate, usually political, between two or more parties on Twitter. Usually results in severe follower loss. |
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twitterati |
Twitter + literati (Origin is literati; the literary intelligentsia or educated class). |
possibly Susan Tenby |
twittercane |
Twitter + hurricane: an overwhelming, swirling vortex of tweets which often leaves those it passes feeling drenched and disheveled. |
it was davidcosand |
twitterdipity |
Happening to see or send a tweet that helps you or another tweeter via links, info, connecting, etc. (serendipity) |
@mediaChick @brampitoyo |
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 |
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
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strandloper
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twollower |
Twitter + follower: someone that follows you. If you followed them too they would be twiends.
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dkr |
twonanism
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Self-referential, self-aggrandising, masturbatory Tweeting |
Phil_Adams |
twoosh |
A 140-character tweet, named because of the "whoosh" sound which plays in some clients when a 140-character tweet is received. I believe that Twitteriffic was the first client to play the sound. |
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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 |
twypo |
A typo on Twitter ("If you exercise regularly and died, you can lose a lot of weight.") |
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