A glossary of Twitter specific terminology. Prompted by this tweet and also having to explain these to people, here are a bunch of Twitter-specific terms. I thought it might be fun to collect these - contributions welcome!
Theres a glossary on Twitter, and a bunch of others aimed at marketing people but all those are boring so i might leave out / link to all the ones already defined there: https://help.twitter.com/en/glossary
A hashtag that gets a small image or emoji appended to it. See https://wongmjane.com/hashflag-browser
Asking for clarification, sources, etc in bad faith, not to accept new information but to draw out and waste time or effort, or to provoke a reaction - basically this: http://wondermark.com/1k62/
Tweeting about something or someone without explicitly mentioning it (article, username, fandom etc).
Mentioning or replying to a subtweet with the thing being talked about.
Having your account or tweets hidden but not in an obvious way, eg: getting excluded from search, recommendations, replies or eslewhere because of spam or abuse.
Collective community of people into something - usually have a mix of stans and normies.
Groups of twitter accounts dedicated to a specific celebrity or group or genre. Eg: k-pop stans, Ariana stans etc.
So called "Normal" people on twitter - usually aimed at professional accounts, brands, or accounts that seem unaware of what's going on or avoid extremes.
Using twitter Ads to tweet a tweet that's not publicly visible but still functional.
Either using the new feature to restrict who can reply to a tweet thread, or it's something else Twitter Ads related i dont know about?
When the replies to a tweet far outweigh the retweets or likes, usually because of a controversial opinion or statement.
Someone who replies to your tweets, usually used to describe unwanted replies or excessive or fanatical replying behaviour.
Usually as a hashtag and with a name, whenever something about someone is revealed that's potentially career damaging.
Hoping to win favour with someone by appearing to be overly suppportive. Usually aimed at replyguys.
Fanatically idolizing a celebrity or group of some sort. Or maybe more like: When you simp for famous peope.
Linking to an article you strongly disagree with so you can share your disagreement and revel in other people's similar reactions.