Mar 21 2008
Add Twitter Vocabulary to Wikipedia
I was watching a couple friends flirting on twitter today and started talking to Gabe about a good word for flirting on twitter. I came up with “twirting” and looked around to see of someone else had come up with it. I didn’t see it in a google search, so I went over to Wikipedia and looked up twitter, found no Vocabulary section, so I added it and added my word and a few others I’ve heard.
Go here to add others!
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.
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You’ve been twarted.
Jenny - you just made me GOL! Guffaw out loud!
Well done!
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Interesting follow up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_for_things_made_up_one_day
I can see the point.
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Declan, it would be great if you could follow up on the value of twitter sometime. I really, REALLY do not get it.
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