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Created by: scott.sf

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On Twitter, to unfollow someone is to stop following the user so that person's tweets and updates no longer shows up on your own page. A user may decide at any point that another user he is following ...

Domain: Social network; Category: Microblogs

A tritterian is a Twitter user with a high number of tweets. It's the opposite of tweep or rookie. A twitterian is usually perceived positively as they contribute a large amount of useful content for ...

Domain: Social network; Category: Microblogs

The act of posting a message through Twitter's microblogging service. The term tweet can be both a noun and verb. As a verb, it literally means to utter a weak chirping sound by a young or small ...

Domain: Social network; Category: Microblogs

A short text message posted via Twitter containing 140 characters or less. A tweet can also contain special symbols such as a hashtag (#) and the mention tag "@" to add special functions to the short ...

Domain: Social network; Category: Microblogs

A tweep is a Twitter user who is a rookie or a novice by virtue of their low number of tweets. The term is a portmanteau of Twitter and peep. Theoretically, tweeps can also be called followers as ...

Domain: Social network; Category: Microblogs

Twitter accounts controlled by machines instead of humans that spit out tweets automatically using computer programs. Some of these robot accounts are able to tweet or retweet hundreds of posts ...

Domain: Social network; Category: Microblogs

You can pass along someone's tweet by retweeting it. This is one reason why Twitter messages can spread so fast as the same messages are retweeted again and again by an every growing network of ...

Domain: Social network; Category: Microblogs

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