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The Twittersphere has been created, and there is no stopping the phenomena.  Therefore we have a new lingo, new words, with new meaning, that only those who Tweet might understand.

If you Tweet, you know that you only have 140 characters, so the shortcuts you take to get your message across, are similar to those on text messaging.   But that is not all that has come from Twitter, we also have new words.  I searched the urbandictionary and found some very interesting, and Twitterific words that were born from Twitter.

1.  Tweeple -  People who use twitter.com.

2.  Twittizen -  A citizen of twitterspace, someone who resides in the cyberspace area of twitter.  Someone who twitters.

3.  Tweet -  A post on Twitter, a real-time social messaging system.

4.  Twitterism -  A word specific to the twitter.com universe. Usually formed by adding ‘tw’ to the beginning of any word. For example, a twitter meme is a tweme, and people on twitter are tweeple.
By gosh if we’re not twareful, everything will become a twitterism! You know what I twean?

5.  Speme -  A spam meme- that is, a new word someone creates to be tracked by a service Google or Tweme in order to draw attention.

6. Bacontwitter -  Twittering through the six degrees of separation to finally reach Kevin Bacon.

7.  Twitterverse -  The cyberspace area of twitter. This naturally extends beyond twitter.com to anywhere you can twitter, which includes cell phones.

8.  Twit -  Originally a twit was a person who annoys or “twits” others. Not unlike other tw words and rhymes with nitwit. Now comes “twitter” and twit takes on a whole new definition. It is still someone who annoys others or “twits” them. But now it is someone so infatuated with twitter and their tweets that when not twittering they are talking about twitter and tweets. A twit is someone who has lost the ability to communicate face to face. Someone lacking interpersonal skills.

9.  Twitterholic - A person who is addicted to twitter. They tend to tweet at least 20 times per day, follow at least 200 people, and attain at least 150 followers. Since twitterholics tend to do very little other than use twitter, Twitters intended purpose of quick messages about what you are doing is not enough to satisfy their need to tweet, therefore they carry out conversations, share links, and play games. Twitterholics are competitive about their stats, trying to post more than anybody else, or have more friends/followers than anybody else.

10.  Tweetup  - A group of friends on Twitter that are planning to meet up. A request by a user to meet with friends via Twitter.

11.  Tweeper - A person, or persons, who creep friends, or strangers, Twitter profile in order to gain perspective into the person’s life or just find someone to follow. If this is you then you are a Twitter-Creeper aka a Tweeper. To Creep, is to secrectly and discretely view other people’s profiles, blogs, etc without the person’s knowledge.

12.  Tweepetry - A poem of exactly 140 characters sent as a tweet. Soon to be popular.

13.  Tweepside - An opposite, reverse, or sharply contrasted side or aspect of something or someone on twitter: The Tweepside of their activities on Twitter is a desire for publicity and social media popularity. An alternate state of reality in twitter. Another word for “tomorrow on twitter”

14.  Tweet cred - Similar to street cred, this is the level of respect you command in the micro-blogosphere due to your witty, cool or ingenious tweets.  Example @garyveegots mad tweet cred!

15.  Tweet Diarrhea - Unstoppable continuous tweets…much like diarrhea. Low to no quality, immense quantity.

16.  Tweet Heap - An excessive amount of messages waiting for you when you log on to Twitter that you feel obligated to read.

17.  Tweet ping pong - When you read the twitter updates of someone and you see an outrageous directed tweet and you want to know what led up to that tweet(or update) of theirs — you must play ping pong between the 2 users to see who asked what and why it was answered that way.

18.  Tweet Syncing - The use of another person to post tweets to your Twitter account, pretending to be you.

19.  Tweetard - A Twitter whore.  Someone who is addicted to Twitter.

20.  Tweetarrea - When a person tweets excessively in a 24 hour period.

21.  Tweetdropping - To eavesdrop on twitter conversations, without making your own comments.

22.   Tweetesis - Something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc. on Twitter: The fact that no one follows me proved to be my tweetesis when trying to get my message out. An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome on Twitter. Especially someone who disagrees pointedly with a tweet.
HISTORY: Originally coined February 1, 2009 by @ADMAVENand @thedirtyblondeon Twitter to describe their interaction when arguing over humor in a Superbowl advertisement.
My tweetesis has been disagreeing with every tweet I make.

23.  Tweetho - That girl at work who sits on twitter all day not working while you slave away for the man.
Tweethoe - That guy at work who sits on twitter all day not working while you slave away for the man.

24.  Tweetover - Is like a sleepover, except instead of chilling with a buddy you tweet all night.

25.  Tweetwad - A name for a person who feels that the frequent posting of the mundane details of their daily life is warranted and/or justified.  “Look at that tweetwad wasting away his pointless life online.”

26.  Tweezer - A geezer that uses Twitter.  “John McCain is a total tweezer.”

27.  Tweevella - A short story told in successive tweets. Like a novella.

28.  Twiddict - A person who is addicted to Twitter.com, and has to update almost every couple of minutes or hour(s)…

29.  Twidiot - Someone that has no experience with Twitter at all. Clueless about Twitter.

30.  TWILF - Acronym, stands for “Tweep I’d like to follow.”

You just never know what language will be next!

I know one thing, I would rather be known as a “TWILF” as a “Tweezer” LOL.

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