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Twittionary: Listing All the Twitter Terms She Could Find
November 9th, 2008 · by @WarrenWhitlock · Filed Under: Twitter · Twitter Glossary · Twitter Tips & Tools
@ShannonYelland has compiled a list of every Twitter term she could find, including “Tw..” words, shorthand and some Twitter tools.
An exhaustive list. Did she get them all?
http://www.sitemasher.com/smblog2/2008/10/my-twittonary-every-twitter-term-and.html
November 13th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Oh Deb this was too EasY!!
HERE ARE JUST THREE, MISSING:
woot
http://twitter.com/woot
Receive automatic updates when Woot announces a new product or sells out. To register for notifications, add woot as your friend.
timer
Need to remember something? Send me a direct message, and I’ll tweet you back. For example, ‘d timer 45 call mom’ reminds you in 45 minutes.
http://twitter.com/timer
Timer is a Twitter bot that helps you set an alarm for things you need to remember. Want to give it a try? It’s easy:
1. If you’re not already a Twitter user, register for a free account.
2. Add timer as your friend.
3. Send a direct message to timer. If you’re sending a direct message via SMS/Twitterific, use the format below (if you’re using Twitter’s direct message interface, you can leave off the d timer bit. More info on direct messages can be found here.):
d timer [# of minutes until reminder] [your message]
Example: d timer 60 check parking meter (will remind you to drop a quarter in 60 minutes)
Note: 5 minutes is the minimum amount of time that you can set. In addition, if you forget to put a time, that’s what you’ll get by default.
4. Timer will then tweet you back after the specified number of minutes has passed. Please note, though, that it is not an accurate timer; many factors, including email, SMS, and Twitter delays may slow delivery. That said, it’s usually not off by much more than a minute. Keep this in mind when you’re using timer to cook macaroni (please don’t hold us responsible for soggy noodles).
isitniceoutside
http://twitter.com/isitniceoutside
Direct message with your FULL city or postal code/zip code and get today’s weather. In order to get today’s weather and a two day forecast simply…
1. Follow me (you can do this by sending the message ‘follow isitniceoutside’; or press follow). 06:52 PM May 11, 2008 from web
2. Shortly after I will follow you this will allow direct messaging between us allowing you to keep what’s important on your time line. 06:52 PM May 11, 2008 from web
3. Now you can send a request; simply send a direct message to me with your FULL city or postal code/zip code. 06:51 PM May 11, 2008 from web
By default I return results in Celsius but I also support Fahrenheit simply append (f) to your direct message e.g. NE14ST(f) 06:51 PM May 11, 2008 from web
rollthedice
http://twitter.com/rollthedice
rollthedice is a twitter bot you can use to generate all sorts of random events. Some of the things you can do with rollthedice are:
• Roll Dice
• Flip a coin
• Deal cards
• Generate a random number
• More coming soon
Meet rollthedice
rollthedice is a twitter bot you can use to generate all sorts of random events. Some of the things you can do with rollthedice are:
• Roll Dice
• Flip a coin
• Deal cards
• Generate a random number
• More coming soon!
How to use:
• Follow rollthedice on twitter.
• Send rollthedice a direct message to perform a command.
• rollthedice will send you back a direct message with the results!
• Occasionally rollthedice will update its own status with things that users have told it to do.
List of commands
• roll commands
o roll
This will roll 1 6-sided die and return the result
o roll num
This will roll num regular 6-sided dice and return the results.
Example: roll 4 will roll 4 6-sided dice.
o roll num1 num2
This will roll num1 num2-sided dice and return the results.
Example: roll 6 12 will roll 6 12-sided dice.
• flip commands
o flip
This will flip a coin and tell you if it landed “heads” or “tails”.
• random commands
o random
This will return a random number between 1 and 100 (inclusive).
o random num
This will return a random number between 1 and num (inclusive).
Example: random 30 will pick a random number between 1 and 30.
o random num1 num2
This will return a random number between num1 and num2 (inclusive).
Example: random 75 150 will pick a random number between 75 and 150.
• cards commands
o cards
This will deal a 5-card hand from a deck of cards.
o cards num
This will deal num 5-card hands from a deck of cards.
Example: cards 3 will deal 3 hands of 5 cards.
o cards num1 num2
This will deal num1 num2-card hands from a deck of cards. It will stop dealing after 52 cards.
Example: cards 4 13 will deal 4 hands of 13 cards.
• highcard commands
o highcard
This will play a game of High Card between you and me. Whoever draws the high card wins!
o highcard @user
This will play a game of High Card between you and @user. Whoever draws the high card wins!
http://twitter.com/mike1mb
November 13th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Ooops that was 4
November 14th, 2008 at 2:05 am
For me - as someone still yet to learn how to text - the joy of Twitter is its simplicity. You don’t have to learn anything! I’m on Facebook but now just have my Tweets fed in, and don’t worry about all the different groups, invites or pokes(?!)
Don’t get bogged down by all these Twitter applications. Yes, I use one or two myself, but for the most part I use Twitter as it comes. The more you Tweet and interact with others, the more you get out of it.
David
http://twitter.com/David365