Top Twitter Terms

Twa-

• twadd: to add/follow someone to your Twitter account as a friend.
• twaffic: Twitter traffic.
• twaiting: twittering while waiting.
• twalking: walking while twittering via text.
• twapplications: Twitter applications.

Twe-

• twead: to read a tweet from a fellow twitterer.
• tweepish: feeling sheepish or regretful about something you tweeted.
• tweeple: Twitter people, Twitter members, Twitter users.
• tweeps: Twitter people that follow each other from one social media/network to another.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 – a Twitter meet up.

Twi-

• twideo-cronicity: when you’re watching someone’s videos and they are simultaneously leaving a comment or tweet for/at/about you.
• twiking: biking while twittering via text.
• twinkedIn: inviting friends made on Twitter to connect with you on LinkedIn ().
• twis: to dis a fellow twitterer. very bad form.
• twitosphere: community of twitterers.
• twittastic: fantastic, wonderful, superb.
• twittcrastination: avoiding action while twittering, procrastination enabled by Twitter use.
• twittduit: If you need to tweet a friend that does not follow you, post a twittduit asking your followers to pass a message.
• twittectomy: an unfollowing of friends.
• twitter-light zone: where you are when you return to Twitter after any time away and feel disoriented and lost.
• twitter stream: a collection of tweets often times in alphabetical order
• twitosphere: the community of twepple.
• twitterati: The A-list twitterers.
• twittercal mass: a community that has achieved a critical mass of twitterers.
• twitterer: a user of Twitter (compare: tweeter).
• twittering: to send a Twitter message.
• twitterish: erractic behavior with short outbursts.
• twitteritas: women who play with their twitters.
• twitterness: a person’s contribution to the twitosphere.
• 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 through 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.
• twitterage: rage at a twitter post.
• twitterrhea: the act of sending too many Twitter messages.