The Essential Twitter Dictionary

August 2nd, 2009 Posted by Missie at 8:21 pm

Twitter’s not only taken over our social networking habits and captured our thoughts and opinions on everything, twitter’s changed the way talk with a whole new ‘Twocabulary’ (Twitter vocabulary) invading our world. We’ve put together some of the best twitter words and sayings into a twdictionary - the essential twitter dictionary. 

Twitter - A service that enables millions of people with nothing to say to say it to millions of people.

• 140ism - A miscommunication in 140 characters or fewer. Often when 140 characters were not enough.
• Attwacker - Someone that verbally assaults someone on Twitter. A.K.A., a Twamer (one who flames someone)
• BackTwound - A custom Twitter Background for business or personal use.
• Celebritweet - A celebrity who uses Twitter.
• Dweet - A tweet made, perhaps regrettably, while under the influence of alcohol
• Egotwistical - Tending to talk excessively about oneself on Twitter.
• Featherette - An underage Twitterer
• Featheropolis - Urban Twitter city
• Fly-Bye - Signing off of Twitter
• Followorthy - A Twitter user who is worthy of being followed.
• Illtwitterate - The uninitiated. For those who just “dont get it”.
• Puntwit - Someone offering opinion or criticism in an authoritative manner on Twitter. May or may not enjoy such status outside of Twitter.
• Regurg-a-Tweet - The act of re-tweeting a tweet that someone originally tweeted about you.
• Serentwipity - Funny, ironic, or thought-provoking pairing or grouping of tweets in a timeline
• Speedtweet - A grouping/list of favorite or most contacted user on twitter.
• Spitter - A Twitter spammer
• Star Twek - A tweet about or involving anything related to Star Trek. Trekkies who are also tweeple, Star Twek
• Twacklist - Twitter + blacklist
• Twam - Short for Tweet Spam
• Twance - Somebody in a twitter trance.
• Twacker - A computer programming who is hacking Twitter.
• Twawkward - Being awkward on Twitter
• Twatter - Twitter chatter.
• Twitalicious - something super awesome, twitter style.
• Twazzock - A tweeter who tweets foolish things to celebrities when they really should know better.
• Twaphasia - a language disorder where twitter speak makes its way into real life.
• Tweaven - Twitter + heaven
• Tweek - Twitter geek (Twitter + Geek)
• Tweeps - Twitter + peeps (friends)
• Tweet Vine - Means the grape vine
• Tweetheart(s) - Twitter + Sweetheart(s)
• Twewbie - Someone new to Twitter. A Twitter newbie.
• Twinfomercial - The selling of ones own product, disguised as a tweet
• Twingo - (n) Twitter lingo. The informal language and speech of Twitter users.
• Twitcrush - Declaring a crush on another twitter user.
• Twitterholic - A person who is addicted to using Twitter.
• Twitterkend - A person who spends the weekend using Twitter
• Twitterphobe - A person who is afraid of Twitter.
• Twocabulary - Twitter vocabulary.
• Twollow - (n) The act of following someone on Twitter
• Twypo - A typo on Twitter (”If you exercise regularly and died, you can lose a lot of weight.”)
• Twittery - (adjertive) - give to, or characterised by twittering.
• Twaddle - trivial, feeble, silly, or tedious talk or writing. A pre-existing word & so appropriate as a twitter term! - Thanks to @_fran_ 
• Twitterkend - A person who spends the weekend using twitter.
• Ttwit Twat - chit chat for twitter.
• Twendy - Twitter + trendy. As in, “All the twendy people are doing it.”
• Tweetlover - The fondness or lover of tweets.
• Twickbag - A person who is being a twickbag on twitter.
• twittersitter - someone who updates ur social media status when u are away from ur mobile.
• Twitterkend - A person who spends the weekend using twitter.
• Twequilibrium - When your number of followers exactly matches the number of people you follow.
• Twuv - Twitter love for another Tweep, Tweet, celebrity, thought, idea, remark or class of people.
• Twitterpuff - A person who uses Twitter to pat themselves on the back for their accomplishments.
• Twbot - a twitter account bot that follows you with suspicion.
• Twvision - Twitter + Television.
• Twinion - the ones who follow you on twitter.
• Tworkortunity - about work: a job opportunity.
• Twatted - 1. The past tense of tweet never used in polite company. 2. Twitter incarnation of a ‘chat’.
• Twiller - A thriller written via twitter.
• Twetin - A twitter user of subnormal intelligence. Derivation: Twitter + cretin.
• Twoll - To tweet with the intention of baiting someone into a reaction, or a person who does such a thing
• Twit-Terwoo - the sound an Owly makes on twitter.
• Twitness - witnessing a tweet you’d rather not.
• Foolower One who follows with the sole aim of trying to get followers.
• Twocabulary - Twitter vocabulary.
• Twitalicious something super awesome, twitter style.
• Tweeffic - Tweetering while stuck in traffic.
• Twork What I should be doing instead of twittering.
• Tweebra - A mix between a zebra and a bird! It tweets!
• Twhoot - “A real hoot”…. something funny OR extremely amusing, so as to cause uproarious laughter.
• Tweekative - Talking or chatting in twitter too much.
• Tweetup - Twitter + meetup: a gathering of folks based on a twitter conversation (often impromptu).
• Twavatar - Twitter avatar
• Tweetsperity - Someone who is successful, flourishing, or thriving on Twitter.
• Twictory - To solve a problem using twitter.
• Twitterholic - A person who is addicted to using Twitter. I.E Tweeterland
• Twavatar - Twitter avatar
• Tweetsperity - Someone who is successful, flourishing, or thriving on Twitter.
• Twictory - To solve a problem using twitter.
• Twibinary - twih-bih-”ner-rē - To Send a Twit in binary code.
• Twiterature - Literary works in twitter.
• Twitetiquette - etiquette of using twitter.
• ‘twat’ - the past tense of ‘twit’. Example: ‘He left a twat on my website’. Thanks to @robbydesigns

Got a tword we can add to the dictionary? Let us know below!