Twitter Vocabulary
Here is a list of Twitter vocabulary. I am sure that it is incomplete, but I will keep adding as I go.
- tweets: posts made by twitter users, which must be under 140 characters
- follow: subscribe to a particular users’ twitter posts
- unfollow: unsubscribe from a particular users’ twitter posts
- RT: Retweet: tweeting content posted by another user
- DM / direct message: send a direct private message to another twitter user
- Tweetback: a backlink tweet for a blog article
- favorite: a post on twitter that you mark as favorite to find it quickly when you need it
- followorthy: a twitter user who is worthy of following
- followspam: The practice of following another twitter account, usually to prompt a reciprocol follow in order to boost follow count, or to encourage the followee to explore the profile fo the follower, whereupon they inevitably see some form of advertising or come-on.
- tweetup: meeting a twitter user/s in the real world
- Fly-bye: signing off of twitter
- tweeps: friends on twitter
- tweople: people who tweet
- twirting: flirting on twitter
- twitterhea: the unstoppable urge to tweet
- twammer: Twitter + spammer: someone that follows many people and post updates with links to web sites akin to those found in spam e-mails.
- tweetjacking: Hijacking someone’s tweet by switching their link for your own and retweeting it, piggybacking on their authority to drive traffic to your own target page.
- twitterverse: The cyberspace area of twitter. This naturally extends beyond twitter.com to anywhere you can twitter.
