The Language of Twitter
Twitter lingo is not all that easy to grasp, however there seems to be some type of overall consistancy amoung tweeple.
I pulled together all the twitter terminologies I could find to compile into a twitter dictionary of terms… aka twittonary.
Drunktwittering- Similar to drunk dialing.
Drive-by-tweet- A quickie post inbetween tasks
Friendapalooza - A scheduled burst of friend-adding on Twitter and other social networks.
Mistweet - A tweet one later regrets.
ReporTwitters - bunch of journalists publishing ‘reality style’ tweets in conjunction with their articles.
Twittcrastination - avoiding action while Twittering, procrastination enabled by Twitter use
Twaiting- Twittering while waiting
Twaffic - Twitter traffic.
Tweeple - Twitter people, Twitter members, Twitter users
Tweepish - Feeling sheepish or regretful about something you tweeted.
Tweeps- Twitterites that follow each other from one social media/network to another.
Tweet-back - Bringing a previous tweet conversation or reference back into the current conversation.
Tweet-dropping- Eavesdropping on someone else’s Home Page in friends mode.
Tweetaholism - the continued use of Twitter as an addiction that is difficult to control
Tweetaholic- someone addicted to Twitter, so much so that it may be an actual problem
Tweeter - A user of Twitter
Tweeterboxes- Twitterers who tweet too much
Tweetheart - that special tweeter who makes your heart skip a beat
TweetIn- When a group of twitterers agree to get together at a set time to twitter
Tweet(ing) - The act of posting to Twitter
Tweets- Posts on Twitter by twitterers.
Tweetsulted, Tweetsult- What do you think it means, you dumb twitterer?
TweetUp- When twitterers meet in person in one’s home nest.
Twittercal mass- A community that has achieved a critical mass of twitterers.
Twideo-cronicity- When you’re watching someone’s videos and they are simultaneously leaving a comment or tweet for/at/about you.
TwinkedIn- Inviting friends made on Twitter to “connect with you on LinkedIn”
Twis- To dis a fellow twitterer. Bad form.
Twitosphere- Community of twitterers
Twittastic - Fantastic, wonderful, superb
Twittcrastination - Twittering as a form of procrastination
Twittduit- If you need to Tweet a friend that does not follow you, post a Twittduit asking your followers to pass a message.
Twitter-Light Zone - Where you are when you return to Twitter after any time away and feel disoriented and lost.
Twitterer - A user of Twitter (compare: Tweeter).
Twittectomy- unfollowing friends
Twittering - To send a Twitter message.
Twitterish- Erractic behavior with short outbursts.
Twitteritas - Women who play with their twitters.
Twittfeinated, Twigged Out, Twired - To be so hyped up on twittering that you cannot sleep
Twitterfly - Being a social butterfly on Twitter evidenced by extreme usage of @ signs.
Twitterject - Interject your tweet into an existing tweet stream of conversation.
Twitter-ku- Those who either post on both Twitter and Jaiku or load their Twitter feed into Jaiku.
TwitterLinkr - A service collecting the best links posted trough Twitter
Twitterlooing - Twittering from a bathroom.
Twitterloop - To be caught up with friend tweets and up on the conversation.
Twittermob - An unruly and ragtag horde of people who descend on an ill-prepared location after a provocative Twitter message.
Twittermaps- A mashup technology that lets Twitter users find each other using Google maps.
Twitterpated - To be overwhelmed with Twitter messages.
Twitterphoria - The elation you feel when the person you’ve added as a friend adds you back.
Twitterrage- Rage at a twitter post.
Twitterrhea - The act of sending too many Twitter messages.
Twitterrific and Twitteroo - Two services that let users post to Twitter using a Mac or PC.
Twitterrific(2) - a really good Twitter thing
Twitterstream- the twitter timeline (public or friends)
Twittertories- Clusters of twittererers that follow and friend each other with little overlap with other clusters.
Twitterverse- the universe as it relates to Twitter.
Twittonary - dictionary of twitter terminology
Twittorial- Twitter tutorial
Twittertude - Bad Twitter attitude. Or a state of being, like solitude only with other people present.
Twittfessional - A confession made on Twitter
Twitticisms - Witty tweets
Twittilate - To arouse with tweets.
Twittish - Too skittish to twitter.
Twittsomnia - Twittering due to inability to sleep, thus compounding inability to sleep.
Twittworking- Networking with Twitterites using Twitter
Twixt and tween - Can’t decide who or what to tweet
Twofor- Replying to two unrelated twitter msgs with a single tweet
Twoogle - Twitter as the human Google.
Tword- Words formed by appending “Tw” to the original word (like most words in this list).
Twoops- When you accidentally send a private sms to Twitter
Twopsies- When you drop things because you are twittering.
I know there are probably a lot more.. so send me an email and I will continue to add to this post.
Happy Twittering :)
Good People Day
I know.. I bitch… A LOT. Life is crazy.. so much revolves around money and work and deadlines.. and just sometimes we get blinded. I know I do.
I know that behind it all are a lot of people I love and care about and that without a lot of these people I would not be able to do what it is I want to do.
So.. whether this is where its all supposed to be or not.. I am really just sending out a big beautiful thanks to all of my friends, family, and loved ones.
We all need a little reminder every now and then that life is good.. people are good.. and without these good people in our life… well.. it just would not be so good!
So Happy Good People Day!