I came across a repository for the meanings and manglings of words and language on Twitter. I have to say that not even I knew that some of them existed. Some are cool and others a bit obvious.
There are loads of them and I have just selected 25 below:
- Attwaction: A crush (intellectual or physical) on a fellow twitterer.
- Attwacker: Someone that verbally assaults someone on Twitter. A.K.A., a Twamer (one who flames someone).
- Celebritweet: A celebrity who uses Twitter.
- Cybertweet: Twitter-based mutual masturbation with someone you wouldn’t speak to in real life.
- Deja-Tweet: The overwhelming feeling that you just saw that same tweet, from that same person, 20 minutes ago.
- Dweet: A tweet made, perhaps regrettably, while under the influence of alcohol.
- Fatal attwaction: The condition afflicting a person who is stalking other twitter users.
- Fly-Bye: Signing off of Twitter.
- GetTweet: Acquire Twitter modifications and add-ons.
- MRT: Modified ReTweet: Use when you have to edit the original tweet for grammer, spelling, or space for your comments.
- Naked twits: A twitterer’s unprotected updates.
- NTS: note to self.
- ReBird: twat who’s transformed into a Twitterbird (twitter maniac).
- Speedtweet: A grouping/list of favorite or most contacted users (“I’ve got you on speedtweet”).
- Spitter: A Twitter spammer.
- Switch twitter: Person maintaining multiple Twitter accounts.
- Twacker: A computer programming who is hacking Twitter.
- Twaddle: The rubbish Tweets that no one wants to read. A Twitterer with a bad walk, akin to a duck.
- Twafficking: Offering/dealing in illegal Tweets always via DM. Seen following new & inoccent Twitterers.
- Twam: Short for Tweet Spam.
- Twansformer: An application that modifies your tweet before you send it. Ex) spell check, shortening URLs, or conversion to text-speak so it fits under 140 characters.
- Twarma: The bad Karma you get when you don’t retweet or promote other Tweeps so they get followers.
- Twatter: Twitter chatter.
- Tweaser: Someone who refers to something juicy (like a racy photo) in a tweet, but then posts no corresponding link.
- Tweek: Twitter geek (Twitter + Geek).
If you need to know more lingo concerning Twitter, you could always go to The Dictionary for Twitter and read up on some more. They have loads and loads of words to learn and use.
Which do you use? Do you have a favorite one? Have you made your own words up?
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I did not know about all these twitter lingo. I knew re tweet :S
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@priscus – you see, we all have a lot still to learn
This is too much George…
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@shraqs – I know there are many, but you don’t have to learn them all. Maybe just bookmark the site and reference it later
I didn’t know about it.Thanx for the info.I will use them asap
@Ricky – glad to be of help. Let me know how it works out.
All of them seems to be new to me, I wonder how many people actually use this lingo..??
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@Harsh – not really sure how many use it. That would be an interesting test.
Ha Ha! There’s a bunch of new invented words for this strange new social media. LOL. Ahh if we could just go back to the simplicity of the 90′s. LOL.
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@Nicholas – new words/lingo will always pop up, it’s the way of life I guess
After reading these words, I think I am so dull in twitter
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@Atul – no one is ever dull. New words will pop up. You can use some of them if you want, it’s not a must.
Hmm Lovely..thanks for dictionary list
I didn’t even know more than 3 here..!
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@TechZoomIn – I’m with you on this one. I knew very little of them.
Those are funny. I have been on Twitter for a while and have only seen 2 of those words really used. I have never heard of the others…or should I say- twuthers,.
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@Tycoon – don’t me make laugh now
Cool collections. Thanks a lot ^_^
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I personally knew only about re-tweet. Thanks for letting us know on the rest of the stuff…
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@CLP – thanks, I’m trying to improve it anyway I can.
I know a few of the basics but my Twitter vocab is not that big haha.
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@Extreme John – you seem to me as one that would know a lot of the lingo. I guess we are never to old to learn, ha ha ha
Amazing how the world wide web transforms a social networking way of meaning. I’m not surprised that these exist, it takes on a complete new way of creativity. So nice to be back here again. Your site is looking is looking as beautiful as ever. Love the organised boxes at the top. Your free to enter my 100th Post Celebratory Giveaway. The more people the merrier.
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@Ana – thanks for the compliment, I see what your giveaway is all about. Thanks for visiting
Haha dude, I seriously just heard those words for the first time here in your blog…
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@Melvin – don’t worry, I also just found out about some words.
Cybertweet…. lol, I really don’t hope anybody ever done that, I mean, the whole world would be able to see it!
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@Klaus – funny hey, do you use some of the words?
Too funny. I guess that when I hear younger people refer to someone as a “Tweek”, it may mean something completely different from when I was their age. lol. If even a fraction of these catch on though, I’ll be very surprised.
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@Trey – you are right about how many of these words get used on a daily basis, there are just way to many to remember.
That is a lot of Twitter lingo that I didn’t know that it existed. I need to learn more about Twitter I guess. Thanks Greg Ellison
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@Greg – it’s funny, but you will always be learning about a program as things change to quickly on the net.
Haha! This is neat George. I use Twitter regularly, yet I hadn’t heard of this. Maybe I’ll start speaking Twitter.
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@Gooroo – let me know how it goes, love to know how many you would remember and actually use.
Lol, its so funny how people get so attached to a website that they even have their own lingo.
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@Asswass – you are actually right, but you must know that every language has their own lingo and slang.
Well we actually just got our Twitter account setup this past weekend, so I am guessing this new vocabulary will come in handy! Hopefully we won’t get too many “Spitters”!
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@doug – you make me lol, good luck and let us know how it goes and welcome to Twitter
Really a nice post , I was not knowing much about twitter lingo, apart from few here and there, i can now increase my twitter lingo with the help of this post.
@Ruchi – glad to be of assistance. Let me know how it goes.
Lovely!. I didn’t know about all the twitter lingo. thnx for the share serradinho! tweeted
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@gautam – thanks for tweeting about it. I hope the lingo helps. Please let me know what you think and if you used some of it and if others really understood you.
I’m definitely going to tweet this too. I finally know what the abbreviations mean.
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@Maria – glad to know. The only thing about new lingo is that it changes so rapidly, you will need to learn and learn and never stop learning.
wow so much…All these Twitter lingo are new to me! Thanks for bringing this up. Cheers!
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@Alvin – glad you liked it, would like to know which words you use now and which ones you will be trying to use.
Wow, this is a long list. I seldom tweets, but thanks for sharing anyway.
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@Jacob – let me know what you think of the lingo and how much of it you actually use
They sounds strange to me actually haha. I just used 2-3 of them, such as Twam, Celebritweet.
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@Jacob – let me know if you start using the others and what your experience is. Would love to know.
I would’ never have known these existed if I didn’t find your blog. Interesting read non the less. Will I start using them… highly doubtful.
Twatter: Twitter chatter sounds like something my mom would say.
Too funny!
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@bbrian017 – glad you like them. I also think that most of the words never get used. I guess it depends on the users themself.
Ok. Trusting George, I’m going to use these lingos !
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@Pradeep – you don’t have to trust me, just try and use some of them and see how it goes, it might or might not work for you.