40 Twitter Terms You Might Not Know

Twitter is one of the best things that happened on the Internet. Ever since the Social networking cum Micro-blogging site emerged in 2006, it has been growing in a tremendous way marking more than 200 million registered users as 2011, tweeting more than 200 million tweets per day. The figures certainly contribute in making twitter one of the ten most visited sites of the present time.

The Twitter Empire has expanded in such a fashion they have their own glossary of twitter terms. This might seem as an abuse to the English language but thanks to the Twitosphere, it has been well accepted as Twitterspeak.

Here, I present you with 40 twitter terms that are really interesting and worth having a look:

twitter: Starting with “twitter” itself, it is an online social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters

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tweet(ing): Act of posting a message on twitter

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tweeter: A twitter user or a person who tweet

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tweets: A collection of posts on Twitter

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twittering: Sending a Twitter message

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twype: Typing a Twitter message

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twead: Reading your tweets

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tweeps/tweeples: A cluster of friends on Twitter

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twadd: An act of adding someone as your friend

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twaggle: A group of people who follow you on twitter / followers

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twaffic: Traffic on Twitter

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twactor: Someone who impersonates another person on Twitter

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twittworking: Networking with other Twitter users

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twixt and tween: Not able to decide who or what to tweet

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tweeterbox: Someone who Tweets too much

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twitterrhea: the act of sending too many Twitter messages

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twoosh: A full 140 character Twitter message

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twitterific: Something awesome related to Twitter

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twittectomy: The act of un-following someone on Twitter

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tweetard: Someone acting like an idiot on Twitter

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twittfessional: A confession made on Twitter

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twaiting: Twittering while waiting for something

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twittcrastination: Using Twitter to procrastinate

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twitterstream: The Twitter timeline

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twurve:y A survey conducted over Twitter

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twittonary: Dictionary of twitter terminology

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twitosphere: Community of twitterers

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tweet-back: Bringing a previous tweet conversation or reference back into the current conversation

tweepish: Feeling sheepish or regretful about something you tweeted.

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tweekend: Spending your entire Saturday and Sunday reading and posting via Twitter

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twebay: Putting something up for sale on Twitter

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tweetheart: A Twitter sweetheart

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Dweet / Mistweet: A tweet sent unknowingly

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twalking: To tweet while walking

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twapplications: Twitter applications and Twitter mashups

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twitterphobe: Someone who is fearful or reluctant to join Twitter

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twitticisms: Witty or funny tweets

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tweetup: when twitterers meet in person – a Twitter meet up

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tweetaholic: someone addicted to Twitter, so much so that it may be an actual problem

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twitterati: A-list twitterers

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twerminology: Lingo used on Twitter

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These are only a few twitterspeak to list. If you thought all the twitterspeak starts with ‘t’, don’t keep yourself at bay and get yourself the whole list at twictionary and twittonary

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