The Essential twitter Lexicon

tweet: the 140 character message that you post
twittering/tweeting: the act of sending your tweet
followers: people who receive tweets from you
following: people from whome you receive tweets
retweet: forwarding a tweet to your followers
@: appers before the name of the person whome you are replying to
tweep: is a person whome you know on twitter
twoops: when a direct message appers in apublic
twitpic: posting a picture to all your followers
twitterfeeds: news feed which you receive straight in your account
tweet-up: when two twitters meet face to face
twestival annual meet of twitterers in major cities around the world
twitterverse: the twitter universe
twittercize: criticizing someone's tweet
trending: any popular subject which users tweet about
#tags: appers before a tweet making trending topics easier to locate
twemes: breaks up as twitter memes which are global tags for twitter