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A few new words
You heard it here first. I'm defining three new words:
1) Twescalate - to over-hype something or create a controversy by causing a massive tweet / retweet of a piece of information. For examples, see "Gottfried, Mark" and "Ref comment." Also, see "Spike Lee" and "Zimmerman Address" - or "Southern Miss Band"
2) Twescalation - the act of tweeting with the hope / desire of creating a mountain out of a molehill: See "Bike mom and Burger King Drive Thru"
3) Tweester - the state of outrage, indignation, disbelief, and generally over the top response of "twitter nation," thereby making it seem that a vast number of ALL Americans feel the same way: See "Health care decision, oscar nominations, wiki leaks, tot mom, etc." Alternate: "Atwitter"
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"Tweerping" -- Maryland fans using social media after the refs stola another game from them.
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My favorite new word related to social media is vaguebook (v), often seen in its participial form vaguebooking: to complain in a status about how an unspecified party has wronged you, with the aim of garnering sympathy from friends who always take your side.
Often goes something like this:
Some ppl just dont know how to treat a woman. smh!
</avalanche of sympathetic comments about how she's too good for him>
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Twit: one who cares too much about the twitter.
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Like I give a tweet about any of this.
:p