Top 5: Emerging Twingo Trends

We’ve Gone Through the Twictionary to Bring You Emerging Twitter Lingo

By Ethan Lyon, Senior Writer

The unique culture surrounding Twitter has been explosive in the past year. Twitter serves as testing grounds for innovative and interesting approaches to social media. Twebinars is an example of Twitter using mash-ups to create a powerful new web 2.0 tool for business (ie @nielsoncompany, or @cnn), celebrities (ie @Opera, @aplusk) and anyone with an Internet connection.

This counter-culture is so expansive and unique, it has its own language. Mostly “tw” is place in front of a word to make it “twingo” (Twitter lingo), but there are some more interesting approaches to “twitify” language. We scoured the twictionary to bring you interesting ways our emerging trends apply to Twitter.

1. Maximizer
Brevity and conciseness is the premise on which Twitter was built. The 140-character concept is what the Maximizer trend is all about. Finding the most compressed way of getting your message across is a necessity on Twitter. Exacto Tweeters are those who use the 140 characters to get their message across—maximizing their allotted space. But for those who still can’t get their message across in less than 140 characters, well… you’ve just made a 140ism.

2. Houdini
Tweaven is the obvious combination of Twitter + Heaven. For those who feel Tweeting puts them in a sublime paradise—an escape from the daily routine—they are following the Houdini trend. The Houdini trend is all about taking a virtual vacation from reality. Those completely immersed in Twitter could be living in Tweaven—the Twitter version of virtual vacation.

3. Sensory Mashup
First there was the seminar. Then there was the webinar. Now, naturally there’s the Twebinar. The Twebinar (@twebinar) allots a time and digital location in which users can discuss an interesting topic with a social media wizard like Chris Brogan or any other “speaker.” The Twebinar entitled “Listening” received approximately 1,400 tweets—quite an involvement for a discussion on listening.

4. Retrofitting
Vintage tweets. They could be from a year, month, week or day ago… but they are so good they deserve a another Tweet. RT stands for re-tweet. If you just enjoyed your tweet or another twiends, you tweet it again. Just like the Bigelow-Apothecary re-introducing vintage beauty products, RTs re-introduce interesting tidbits that need to be bumped up the page.

5. Private Eye
For this post, we followed the Private Eye trend—in that we had to delve into the twingo (Twitter lingo) to find interesting, on trend Twitter language. We scoured the twictionary to find lingo that made sense with our emerging trends. Soon, there’ll be a Twesaurus to sort similar terms such as twingo and twargon.

To find out more about our emerging trends, download the Emerging Trend Report in PDF format

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