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Web communities that allow users to collaborate and connect with one another.

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tweep

Social network; 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 ...

hashtag

Social network; Microblogs

A hashtag is a word or a phrase prefixed with the symbol #. It is a form of metadata tag that helps identify a specific message or topic in microblogs. Any combination of ...

mention

Social network; Microblogs

A method to bring a tweet to a user's attention by including their @username in a tweet. This is called a mention and will appear to the @username you mentioned as well as to all ...

tweet

Social network; Microblogs

A short text message posted via Twitter containing 140 characters or less. A tweet can also contain special symbols such as a hashtag (#) and the mention tag "@" to add special ...

tweet

Social network; 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 ...

retweet

Social network; 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 ...

reply

Social network; 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 ...