Comments on: Add Twitter Vocabulary to Wikipedia

By: How to Twirt (or Twitter Flirt) Skillfully | by Ari Herzog

How to Twirt (or Twitter Flirt) Skillfully | by Ari Herzog — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:42:39 +0000

[...] to @declan with a random Google-resulted posting I found on adding Twitter vocabulary to a lexicon where he suggests a twirt is a verb to flirt on [...]

By: ReaderX

ReaderX — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:04:52 +0000

Declan, it would be great if you could follow up on the value of twitter sometime. I really, REALLY do not get it.

By: declan

declan — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:35:44 +0000

Interesting follow up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_for_things_made_up_one_day

I can see the point.

By: declan

declan — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:36:46 +0000

Jenny - you just made me GOL! Guffaw out loud!

Well done!

By: bmljenny

bmljenny — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:24:46 +0000

You’ve been twarted.

By: declan

declan — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:42:55 +0000

So, I added these entries to the wikipedia page:

== Twitter Vocabulary ==

* Tweet - verb. to send a twitter message
* Tweeps - noun. one’s twitter friends
* Twirt - verb. to flirt on twitter

and someone else (maybe Jerry) added this:

* Chirp Storm- noun. popular twitter, tweeted about by many.

Then I went back to see if anyone else had added, and my new section was gone. I looked at the history and User:Geni had reverted us:

(diff) (hist) . . Twitter‎; 19:31 . . (-206) . . Geni (Talk | contribs) (→Twitter Vocabulary: rm section original reasearch and stuff made up in one afternoon http://www.declan.net/2008/03/21/add-twitter-vocabulary-to-wikipedia/)

I must have violated some Wikipedia editing ethic?

Robert notes that since I just made “twirting” up, that there are not enough references for it to be a valid entry.

Interesting process. I could unrevert, but I don’t want to get into a war. On the other hand, I was hoping people would start adding stuff.