What are the top ten words/phrases from 2010 added to the Urban Dictionary? The list looks like this:
For the full definitions of these crowd-sourced words, be sure to check out the Urban Dictionary Word of the Year 2010.
Here’s my fictitious word of the day, fauxcast. It means “a completely inaccurate weather forecast.”
Isn’t Hawaii under a flash flood advisory right now? It’s gorgeous blue skies and sunny outside. The meteorologist must have given a fauxcast.
Get it? Soon to be published at UrbanDictionary.com.
So I may be a one trick pony with my submissions to the infamous Urban Dictionary, but I have another Twitter-related addition to its lexicon. New to your vocabulary is twestimonial.
In short, a twestimonial is a Twitter-sized testimonial. Simple right? Here’s the “official” definition:
Time is precious and who has time to read long reviews? Get right to the point with Twitter-sized testimonials that tell it like it is.
For an example of a twestimonial, I used the recent tweetup with Chris Pirillo to come up with this:
Did you see my twestimonial giving props to Chris Pirillo? @chrispirillo is the geek’s geek who pwns all of nerdom. He’s the mayor of #awesometown!
So next time, you’re bushtiting on Twitter, drop a few twestimonials like these (or better than these).
My latest submission to Urban Dictionary was rejected so instead of letting it waste away, I figured I’d post it here. Here is my proposed definition for Ashton’s Orphans (or maybe it shoulda been Ashton’s Tworphans for some Twitterese):
All those unloved, unused, and now orphaned Twitter accounts spawned by fans of Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) in his race against CNN to reach one million Twitter followers.
Example: My IRL friends only joined Twitter to help Ashton Kutcher reach one million followers before CNN, but now they’re just one of Ashton’s Orphans.
I made a few small changes to the original submission, but oh well… There’s always twuat and Twitter MILF. 😉
No, it’s not what you think! We’re not talking traditional MILF but the remixed Twitter variation, Mothers I’d Like to Follow, aka “Twitter MILF.” In the Urban Dictionary, Twitter MILF is defined thusly:
In the Twitterverse, the Twitter MILF is the modern day woman who can do it all. She can impart her wisdom in less than 140 characters, enthrall with her beauty in a 73 pixel avatar, and raise children! Indeed, she is a Twitter Mother I’d Like to Follow…
So who would you nominate as a Twitter Mother I’d Like to Follow?
Are you one who titivates his status on Twitter by going after high-profile followers? If so, you twitivate!
Now added to the Urban Dictionary along with twuat. I think I have a few more Urban Dictionary submissions…
Is there a term for the act of domain/cyber squatting Twittter account names? No? I then suggest the term “twuat” for the act of registering Twitter accounts of popular names or words.
What’s the purpose of twuating? Not really sure, but it could just be to reserve your namespace in the popularly growing Twitter. Or if you’re nefarious, it could be to hold a Twitter name hostage for sale to the highest bidder.
Whatever the case may be, I’ve been twuating to reserve names just in case I need to use them for their rightful businesses. Twitter names like @club939…
Update: Woo hoo! UrbanDictionary.com approved my definition of twuat and will publish it in a few days. Keep an eye out for twuat.