By Susan Matthews, APR, principal

All you tweeters out there probably know that your Twitter homepage has sponsored definitions that link to Twitter-related services. Sometimes the names of these sponsors are rather clever, building a new, focused lexicon – or should we say twexicon?

In the spirit of the ever-growing World of Tweetisms, I’d like to suggest a few of my own:

• A twypo is an old-fashioned misspelling, not to be confused with a tword, which is missing vowels (as in “… bd mbrs shld arrive before 5 pm”).
• A twiggle is a tweet that makes you laugh, so of course a twad makes you sad – or is that mad?
• What’s a twudget? It’s the limit of 140 characters, as in “it’s extra hard to keep to your twudget in a retweet.”
• A twoops is when you hit “post” before you want to. I do that every now and then when I’m shortening a link via bit.ly. And I hate it.
• Tweet meat, my personal favorite, is something meaningful and substantial to say via Twitter. Some people would say tweet meat is an oxymoron, and that there’s nothing to be gained by Twitter.

But I beg to differ. We now have another tool in our communications tool box. And while there’s a lot of babble and boring information filling the Twitter waves, this new social media tool gives us a chance to make new connections, access focused information, and instantly communicate with those who choose to follow us.

Plus, we are in total control of whom we follow and who we allow to follow us. So if you don’t want to engage, or if you simply don’t care – then it’s probably time to twign-off. For the rest of you, I’ll see you on Twitter.

Have your own favorite Twitter words? Share them here or @borshoff.

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