Twitter Vocabulary

Twitter is new to all of us but it has some interesting words and concepts.  For all those cool agents out there who need the down low on what in the heck people are talking about..here you go! Enjoy!

Follow - v. to associate with another person for the purpose of receiving his or her messages through the Twitter technology

Follower – n. one who associates with (or ‘follows) another person on Twitter to get messages (or ‘tweets’) from that person

Re-Tweet – v., to forward a message one has received on Twitter.

Tweet – n., the message one posts on Twitter. v., the act of sending a message through Twitter (conjugated as a regular verb in all its forms: present-tweet, past-tweeted, future-will tweet, present progressive-am tweeting, modal-should tweet, etc.) adj., tweetable.

twit – n., (1) one who is Twitter-illiterate because he or she knows nothing about Twitter; (2) one who refuses to partake in the Twitter technology

Twitter – n., the home-base of the Twitter technology built by Jack Dorsey in 2008

Twitter.com –n., the on-line website where people partaking in the Twitter technology find everything needed to register for, exist with, and disengage from their union with Twitter

Twitteree – n., one who receives a message through Twitter

Twitterer – n., one who sends a message through Twitter



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