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glossary

  1. TWEETUP - a physical gathering of tweeters, aka a TweetIn
  2. TWEEPLE - Twitter people, users, etc.
  3. DWEET - a drunken tweet
  4. OH - short for "overheard", aka "hearsay". Used at beginning of a tweet, followed by a colon, then what was overheard.
  5. RETWEET - the Twitter equivalent of "forwarding", abbreviated "RT"
  6. TWIT - the act of sending a tweet, as in "twit this"
  7. @REPLY - a public message that is directed to someone in particular, usually in reply to one of their tweets
  8. DIRECT MESSAGE - a private message sent to someone's "inbox" on Twitter
  9. FOLLOW - to subscribe to someone's stream of tweets
  10. TWEET - a short 140 character message sent on http://twitter.com
  11. TWITTER - an awesome microblogging site found at http://Twitter.com that allows short messages called "tweets" using 140 char each
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