Twitter Glossary
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
hashflag
A hashtag that gets a small image or emoji appended to it. See https://wongmjane.com/hashflag-browser
dunk aka quote tweet aka Retweet with commment
sealion
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/
subtweet
Tweeting about something or someone without explicitly mentioning it (article, username, fandom etc).
snitchtag
Mentioning or replying to a subtweet with the thing being talked about.
shadowban
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.
fandom
Collective community of people into something - usually have a mix of stans and normies.
stans
Groups of twitter accounts dedicated to a specific celebrity or group or genre. Eg: k-pop stans, Ariana stans etc.
normie
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.
nullcast
Using twitter Ads to tweet a tweet that's not publicly visible but still functional.
narrowcast
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?
ratio
When the replies to a tweet far outweigh the retweets or likes, usually because of a controversial opinion or statement.
replyguy
Someone who replies to your tweets, usually used to describe unwanted replies or excessive or fanatical replying behaviour.
___ is over party
Usually as a hashtag and with a name, whenever something about someone is revealed that's potentially career damaging.
simp / simping
Hoping to win favour with someone by appearing to be overly suppportive. Usually aimed at replyguys.
stan
Fanatically idolizing a celebrity or group of some sort. Or maybe more like: When you simp for famous peope.
hateread
Linking to an article you strongly disagree with so you can share your disagreement and revel in other people's similar reactions.