Brinda Berry is BACK and decided to give us a pop quiz to test our TWisdom. It’s an Open Google quiz, so you are guaranteed to ace it. Unless…
Unless you have your hands crammed into a half-frozen turkey cavity, extracting that turkey neck and bag of innards for your homemade stock. If that’s the case, step away from Food Network.
At the end of the quiz, Brida treats us to a list of TwitterVille “insider speak.” Tweets and Tweeps and Retweets and Twerps.
What? That last one isn’t in the TWITTER dictionary? See why I have techie-guru-talented-writer and friend Brinda Berry knock me out of my hammock each Wednesday? You are welcome.
Thunk. I got tipped out of my comfort zone. Climb Flitter aboard, Brinda!
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Brinda Berry is the author of The Waiting Booth, a YA fantasy published by Etopia Press. Currently working in higher education administration, she spends her days thinking of ways to improve education for college students. Brinda spends her nights devising exciting tales that involve teens who might be saving the world.
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ARE YOU A TWEETER OR A TURKEY?
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by Brinda Berry
.Hope everyone is revving up for some great food and company for Thanksgiving. If you’re not American, you’re missing out on the biggest meal of the year. Yes, we Americans take our Thanksgiving meal seriously. What could be better than gorging on turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and that famous green bean casserole that your aunt makes every year? The answer is GORGING and then some serious couch time for TWEETING. It’s a perfect time to lounge around and catch up on the conversations in Twitterville.
First, let’s see if you speak Twitter. Have fun with the quiz and add some of your own in the comments. Some of the acronyms below are used due to the 140 character limit on a message.
1. A picture of a FAIL WHALE appears on the screen. This means…
a. a public service announcement about using birth control
b. Twitter has been watching you and you don’t know what you are doing
c. the Twitter server is overloaded from all the people tweeting
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2. You can place the following in a tweet:
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a. a shortened link
b. an image link
c. a cry for help ’cause you’ve lost your everloving mind from writing non-stop
d. all of the above
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3. You can tweet from…
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a. your phone
b. your home computer
c. your ipad
d. your bathroom (also known as twitterlooing)
e. all of the above
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4. Hashtag is…
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a. an illegal drug that I’ve been looking to buy for weight loss
b. a punctuation mark I thought was a pound sign that indicates a common topic like #weloveBrinda or #imturkeystuffed or #yalitchat
c. can cause trending of topics
d. b and c, but not a….this answers reminds you of high school, right?
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5. A Twitter party is one that takes place on Twitter (duh) and is…
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a. announced ahead of time to invite users
b. synchronous and utilizes a hashtag where people can see a stream of partygoer tweets
c. sometimes involves prizes
d. great advertising
e. all of the above
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The dreaded fill-in-the-blank section.
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6. BTW means __________________.
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7. BRB means ____________________.
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8. FF as in hashtag lingo (#FF) means _________________.
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9. J/K means ________________________.
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10. B/C means ________________________.
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And now the BONUS words (AKA just for fun, so I’m giving you the answers…these are from the
Mashable.com website) :
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adventuritter: an adventurous twitterer
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beetweet: a buzzing tweet; a “hot” tweet
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co-twitterer: a partner that tweets on your Twitter account.
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dweet: tweet sent while intoxicated
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drive-by-tweet: a quick post inbetween tasks
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friendapalooza: a quick burst of friend-adding
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mistweet: a tweet in which one later regrets
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neweeter: a new tweeter
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occasionitter: an occasional tweeter
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sweeple: sweet twitter people
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twaiting: twittering while waiting.
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twalking: walking while twittering via text.
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tweepish: feeling sheepish or regretful about something you tweeted.
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tweeple: Twitter people, Twitter members, Twitter users.
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tweeps: Twitter people that follow each other from one social media/network to another.
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tweetaholism: the continued use of Twitter as an addiction that is difficult to control.
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tweetaholic: someone addicted to Twitter, so much so that it may be an actual problem.
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tweet-back: bringing a previous tweet conversation or reference back into the current conversation.
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tweet-dropping: eavesdropping on someone else’s home page in friends mode.
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tweeterboxes: twitterers who tweet too much.
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tweetheart: that special tweeter who makes your heart skip a beat.
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tweetin: when a group of twitterers agree to get together at a set time to twitter.
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twitterpated: to be overwhelmed with twitter messages.
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twitterphoria: the elation you feel when the person you’ve added as a friends adds you back
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twitterage: rage at a twitter post
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twitterhea: the act of sending too many Twitter messages
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THANKS, BRINDA! And, if you’re reading this, thanks for visiting. Remember, leave a comment, a question (Brinda will answer on-line) and then click here to be redirected to Brinda’s Site to enter your name in the SUPER SPECIAL NOVEMBER PRIZE RAFFLE. You can enter as often as you want. Just make sure you leave a comment before you do! (HINT! HINT! It a Tony-the-Tiger greAT prize!)
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Oh! Oh! Let’s have some fun with this! Invent sentences using Twitterville lingo that–if used around non Twittervanians–might garner an “are you daft?” or a charity fund for your speech therapy , or an intervention followed by a stay at a posh rehab facility. I’m working on mine. Back atcha with it in the comments section.
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Brinda Berry is the author of The Waiting Booth, a YA fantasy published by Etopia Press. Currently working in higher education administration, she spends her days thinking of ways to improve education for college students. Brinda spends her nights devising exciting tales that involve teens who might be saving the world.
Gloria Richard 
Gloria- I CANNOT step away from the Food Network during Nov and Dec. Paula Deen and all her friends seduce me. You’re so much fun. I AM THANKFUL that you are my TWEEP.
Back atcha on gratitude that you are my TWEEP, too, Brinda.
Oh! I could NOT get our fail whale image over–yet. I’m working on it. NO! Step away from Google. You ALWAYS tweet the link with the answer to me. That’s why I’ve elevated you to Sweeple status.
Next up? My first “do not say around non-Twittervanians.”
I’m with you on Paula Deen, btw. Bring on the butter. And that Good Eats guy (Alton?) may be a bit cutesy, but he knows how to talk turkey.
You may be a Twitterholic if you enter the land of non-Twittervanians and say something like:
Hold up on Thanksgiving dinner, will ya’?
I am twitterpated with twitterages because I sent a beetweet to one of my tweep’s tweethearts last night. Need to tweet-back a tweepish. It was a dweet. Had twitterhea of mistweets twaiting for drinks.
It might be time for Twittervention.
Okay, still waiting for the ANSWERS to the quiz…oh, was I supposed to know the answers. Crap, that’s why I’m such a twittercripple. Anyone else out there twitterchallenged????
I guess I could give you the answers here. I’ll start with #1.
#1 (c.) The Fail Whale is the blue cartoon whale held up by strings attached to birds. It means that Twitter is overloaded on their server due to high activity. You have to try again a few minutes later if you see this picture displayed after you log in. It will say that Twitter is “over capacity.”
2. (d) you can insert any of those…a shortened link, a link to an image, text
3. (e) you can tweet from any of those places…but only the bathroom if you have a mobile device with you
4. (d) a hashtag or # is what you put in front of a word or phrase to show the subject matter. This denotes the TOPIC of the tweet. If enough people catch on and use it, then it “trends.” When you log into Twitter, you’ll see a list of TRENDING topics. Here are today’s trending topics: #whenIwaslittle
#AskTed
#DaddysLittleGirls
#HappyThanksgiving
#PartyintheUSA
#TheGamePlan
#FredJackson
#AdventureTime
#BlackFriday
I don’t know what they all mean. I do understand #BlackFriday. If you are in the US, this refers to the day after Thanksgiving sales.
5. (e) A Twitter party might be done this way. I could announce my release date for a new book and say we are having a Twitter party on January 1st at 10:00 pm EST with prizes. The hashtag that everyone would use when they meet me online would be (and you just make up a unique topic name) #WhisperOfMemory . I picked that name since it’s the name of my next book. Someone can help facilitate questions and discussion and prize announcements. Everyone online at that time will place the hashtag in the tweet. Then when I do a search for #WhisperOfMemory, I can see all the people tweeting with me at my party. It doesn’t matter if the person if following me or not, I can see his/her tweet.
So, there are the first 5 answers!!
Another dumb question–and believe me this is just the top of the crop–when I replied to you on Twitter, your name wasn’t on there. Is that why I need to put a period first?
Lori- If you are using Twitter.com on your computer, you should either hit Reply and it will load my @Brinda_Berry in the tweet automatically OR you can type the @Brinda_Berry in the tweet manually. That will force the tweet to show up in my “mentions” column. Otherwise, I won’t know you reply tweeted me.
The period in front of the username you are “mentioning” will only ensure that 2 sets of followers (mine and yours) see the tweet.
Did you say, “Thank you” in your tweet? I looked at your tweets and see that one, but it doesn’t have my username in it.
BTW (By The Way) – there are no dumb questions.<—Answer #6.
I hit reply from my phone, that’s probably why. And yes, I did say Thank You!!!
Ditto, Lori Ann, I am so tweetless its a tweeshame. To have young children who can twit and twaddle from school room to tweebed and this grandtwit can’t do a bit. Okay, I knew one … #amwriting about #amtwit to #amrock. Later for you tweebs 🙂
Florence, I use the #amwriting quite a bit. I also use #amediting , #followfriday , and #writerwednesday . Confession: I forget about using the hashtag sometimes. I do use it regularly to follow a Twitter chat on Wednesday nights at 8:00 CST called #yalitchat.
We need a tweetfest conference…
Hey, Lori! You might want to try out the Wednesday night Twitter chat. I’m making a wild guess here, but I think #yalitchat has something to do with Young Adult Literature. Yeah, Yeah. THAT was a tough one.
I readily acknowledge that I’m a Neweeter, Florence. That’s why I have Brinda covering my back.
BUT! I can show off with the “fill in the blanks” answers (in no particular order, b/c I didn’t write them down)
BTW = by the way
BRB = be right back
B/C = because
J/K= just kidding
And, now for my fave (b/c I learned something brand new!) #FF stands for #Follow Friday. A twitter user can recommend interesting posts to promote wider audiences for those bloggers *hint, hint*. EXAMPLE: @gloriawrites recommends @brinda_berry @lafreeland.
Hey, Florence! Are we not yet following each other? I got no hits when I searched on twitter. Will hop to your site to correct ASAP.
Wooo hoooo!!! Great job. Here’s two more: #MM- Monday Mentions and #WW Writer Wednesdays
Just did a #WW for sites I visited today. I DID tag onto yours Brinda. Bring on Friday and #FF!
If anyone is interested in Twitter chats, here is a terrific link to learn more and see if there’s one you want to try out. http://inkygirl.com/index-twitter-chats/
OOH! Another shiny bauble. Thanks, Brinda! Looks like my suggestion for a “You might be a Twitterholic if…” comment thread didn’t hit any “takers.”
Thought about going to Central Market this afternoon for some Food Network appetizer fare. They had a police officer directing traffic into and out of the store. I waved as I went on by.
#yalitchat is there as well as MANY more. So, people who want to tweet with like-minded writers can find the best group for them. I follow the writer, Inkygirl, on Twitter.
My head hurts, this is like learning a whole new language. Brinda, where can I sign up for remedial help?
Hi Sherry! I did start in the middle, didn’t I…tweetfail.
Since this is a campaign based on Gloria’s needs, I started at the place where I guessed Gloria might be comfortable. I apologize if I skipped all the beginning protocol.
I just snuck over to your profile on Twitter. You’re doing great!
1. You have personalized your wallpaper on Twitter with a nice door image. You also list your website URL and a catchy description in your profile.
2. I see that in your 331 tweets so far, you’ve tweeted, sent RT, sent Mentions, posted links, interacted with others, thanked new followers, etc. WOW! Great job!
3. You have been listed 8 times. You could click on that little “8” and then add those lists to follow those lists. You’ll see a green button with a plus sign for adding.
As for the “lingo”, what you see above in the 10 quiz items will be most of what you’ll need to know. The only things I left out were DM (direct message that goes into your inbox like email) and RT (retweet). The last half of the post with all the twitter words was more for fun that for use.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Forgive me on this last post, Sherry. You didn’t ask that I examine your Twitter activity and I got carried away. 🙂 My only excuse is that I am enthusiastic. Nevertheless, you didn’t ask to be analyzed. Please accept my apology!
Oh, sure, Brinda. Send my competitive self off to Twitter to analyze my stats against Sherry’s. If I’m not on any lists? I’m tagging onto you. Just so you know…
I checked–you’ve been listed multiple times, girlie. Keep up the good work. 🙂
Wow, Brinda! I learned so much. I didn’t do stellar on the quiz. Those darn fill in the blanks :). Had no idea about BRB of J/K.
I wish I had spent yesterday gorging on turkey and sides. Movers were here yesterday and today packing up my house here in merry ole England.
Great job on your web presence!
The fill-in-the-blanks were brutal. I agree.
I’m glad that we are getting you back to the states! Now, we all need to coordinate a meetup at a future conference.
I knew BRB from chats with Sherry. <==== NOT, btw, a "nanner, nanner" comment.
Had no clue on j/k, so I googled it.
My VERY most favorite–b/c of its history–is IDK. One of my tweeps used it in an email that included both Sherry and me. During a subsequent chat conversation with Sherry:
S: Laura used IDK. What does that mean?
G: I don't know.
IDK if Sherry found the humoUr in that. I'm sure the SBUX patrons around me were a bit cautious about "that woman who giggles all the time."
Thanks for visiting again, Isis. Safe travel back to the states for you AND your earthly belongings.
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