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• Drunktwittering - Similar to drunk dialing.
• Dweet - Tweet sent while drunk

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• Friendapalooza - A scheduled burst of friend-adding on Twitter and other social networks.

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H "Heard on the Tweet" - News of interest to Twitter users worldwide. A new column to begin shortly at The Wall Tweet Journal Twitterzine www.walltweetjournal.com

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• Link - Tiny URL for Twitter Glossary http://tinyurl.com/2f9pq7

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• Mistweet - A tweet one later regrets. See here: http://urltea.com/gs7

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• ReporTwitters - bunch of journalists publishing 'reality style' tweets in conjunction with their articles.

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• SnapTweet - snapping a mobile photo, uploading to Flickr, and using http://snaptweet.com to post it to your Twitter stream

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• Twittcrastination - avoiding action while Twittering, procrastination enabled by Twitter use

• Twadd - To add someone as a friend - mutual followers.
• Twaigslist - To sell something via twitter. Also Twebay.
• Twaiting - Twittering while waiting
• Twaffic - Twitter traffic.
• Twardware - Twitter hardware.
• Twashdot - News for twitterers. Stuff that doesn't matter.
• Twaunt - To taunt someone over twitter.
• Twead - To read a twitter.
• Twebay - To offer something for sale via twitter. Also Twaigslist.
• Tweekend - Spending your entire Saturday and Sunday reading and posting via Twitter. (coined by Kim M. Bayne )
• 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
• Tweether - Where lost tweets go to die. coined by Damon Clinkscales
• 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. Example: Denver TweetUp in May. TweetUps - The meeting place for all Twitterers to TweetUp!.
• Twexplanation - Sending a nebulous tweet and having to explain it while offline from twitter.
• Twittercal mass - A community that has achieved a critical mass of twitterers.
• Tweet Pushers - Writers (guest bloggers) whose ideas and suggestions that will be featured at The Wall Tweet Journal www.walltweetjournal.com
• Tweetard - A twitter retard.
• Twibute -- To pay tribute to s.o. on Twitter; to give praise, to make a compliment etc. (Example)
• 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"
• Twike - To ride a bike with twitter.
• Twis - To dis a fellow twitterer. Bad form.
• Twisticuffs - Fighting with a fellow twitterer over twitter.
• Twitosphere - Community of twitterers
• Twittastic - Fantastic, wonderful, superb; coined by the folks at Twitterholic when referring to their robots
• 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.
• Twitterati - The glamorous A-List twitterer's everyone wants to follow.
• Twitterbate - To masturbate to another user's tweets.
• 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
• Twhiner - A twitterer who only ever posts whiney, negative tweets
• Twode - To hack on the twitter API.
• Twofor - Replying to two unrelated twitter msgs with a single tweet
• TwoingTwoing - To twitter about wonderful things.
• Twoogle - Twitter as the human Google. Pose a question, get near-instantaneous results. The Wall Tweet Journal
• 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
• Twoosh - A full 140 character twitter.
• Twopsies - When you drop things because you are twittering.
• Twouche - Someone acting like a big fat jerk via twitter.
• Twurvey - A survey sent out over Twitter
• Twype - To type a twitter.

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References

• What are people Twittering about? SF Gate. Dan Fost, Chronicle Staff Writer. March 19, 2007
• CW just coined Twoops

Also see

• Twitter Descriptions
• Twitter Etiquette

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