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 :)