Somewhat new to the GeekTerms world – Twitter has come from nowhere, gotten huge,gotten HUGE, and now been formally declared DEAD (by G4TV/AOTS).
Seems pretty lively for a dead site, right Twitizens?
Some Tweeterms in no particular order, gathered from all over Twitter:
- Twaiting - Twittering while waiting
- Twaffic - Twitter traffic.
- Twedification – Learning Tweeterms to impress fellow Twitizens
- Tweekend - Spending your entire Saturday and Sunday reading and posting via Twitter.
- 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’s else’s Home Page in With Friends mode.
- Tweetaholism – the continued use of Twitter as an addiction that is difficult to control
- Tweeter - A user of Twitter (compare: Twitterer).
- Tweeterboxes – Twitterers who tweet too much
- Tweetheart – that special someone 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.
- 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.
- Twittonary - dictionary of twitter terminology
- 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. Pose a question, get near-instantaneous results.
- 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.
- Tweet Pushers - Writers (guest bloggers) whose ideas and suggestions that will be featured at The Wall Tweet Journal