Term
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Definition |
First Used Tweet if known or best guess
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twitfluencer |
A Twitter user - you follow - that influences you most (often someone with a massive amount of followers) |
4braham |
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 |
RT |
Retweet: tweeting content posted by another user |
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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 |
Saying goodbye and logging off Twitter |
Clevecarole |
tweetheart(s) |
Twitter + Sweetheart(s) |
possibly MailOurMilitary |
tweetspeak |
"an effect of compulsive posting of tweets, causes excessive compression of thoughts to fit 140 characters" |
aldaspook |
tweetup |
Twitter + meetup: a gathering of folks based on a twitter conversation (often impromptu) |
? |
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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twewbie |
Someone new to Twitter. A Twitter newbie. |
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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 |
twictory |
To solve a problem using twitter |
wyattwerner |
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 |
twitterholic |
A person who is addicted to using Twitter. Also a website showing top twitter user rankings and stats (twitterholic.com) |
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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 |
twitterpreneur |
An entrepreneur on Twitter, or someone creating a Twitter-based startup. |
SmallBizBee (darn, & I thought I was coining it. :( @ggroovin) |
twitterpuff |
AKA twitpuff - A person who uses Twitter to grandstand or pat themselves on the back for their accomplishments; as in puffing themselves up. (ex. "Just finished biking 65 miles, off to swim 100 laps in the pool - it's hard work shaping the perfect body.") See also egotwistical. |
@tsauce |
twitterrhea |
A high volume, unpleasant and - occasionally - messy blast of tweets. Can sometimes be contagious. |
unfortunately, davidcosand |
twittersation |
A conversation conducted on Twitter |
Narses |
twitterscuse |
One of the many reasons given for Twitter not operating correctly |
nwjerseyliz |
twitterspeak |
Using language found only in Tweets, words not typically used in normal conversation |
sharong |
twitterverse |
The body of Twitter users or community, similar to "blogosphere" |
? |
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.
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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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