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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

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

On Twitter, users who subscribe to other users' tweets are known as followers. As a social microblogging site, Twitter revolves around the principle of followers. When you choose to follow another ...

Domain: Social network; Category: Microblogs

To follow someone on Twitter is to subscribe to their tweets in your timeline. Following others is a great way to connect with them and to keep up-to-date with what they do as their tweets will ...

Domain: Social network; Category: Microblogs

A Twitter reply always begin with the "@" symbol, followed by the username. An @reply is a tweet posted in reply to another user's message which is usually done by clicking the "reply" button in ...

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

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

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