Many new users take some time to fully understand the already stablished language codes on Twitter. In order to help, we prepared a micro-dictionary for better comprehension:
Application Programming Interface, a series of functions Twitter sets available for anyone to access the system resources. There are limitations to this access for security reasons.
The picture exibited in each profile that uses to be square shaped and supports JPG, GIF and PNG files.
A URL shortener service thar integrates with the Twitter API to filter the amount of clicks your links have and from which location were they accessed.
Blocking someone on Twitter will exclude you from list of followers of that person, exclude your weets from the person’s home and forbid the blocked one from following you.
Direct Messages are messages sent directly to a certain person in a private way. You can only send DMs to those who follow you.
Favorites are the tweets you mark with a star on the oficial site and are stored in a Favorites Page so you can find content moe easily.
Following a person on Twitter is like a subscription service. You’ll receive the person’s updates on your Home.
A Twitter meme in which, at Fridays, people indicate other interesting people to their readers so they can also follow those. The meme is identified by the tags #ff or #followfriday and variations.
Followers are the people who read your content.
Brazillian URL shorttener service which also integrates with the Twitter API to count the number of cliks and Retweets of the links.
It is the action of not following a specific user any longer. It is like cancelling a subscription.
It is your personal page on Twitter, where all your Tweets are shown.
Replies are identified by the sign of @, are those teets preceded by @nameofuser. The content of replies is public, every one with access to Twitter can see it.
It is the act of citing the autor of a certain Tweet, it is normally identified by the abbreviation RT. Ex.: RT @sbvirtual (SB Virtual’s message).
Most spoken topics on Twitter recently.
Name given to each 140 character post published on Twitter.
The name of the service refers to the way birds sing with a tremulous sound.
Comments
TonFortes
E qual seria o significado e a importância do simbolo “cadeado” em alguns profile?
sbvirtual
Ton, o Cadeado significa que a pessoa optou por ter um perfil protegido, ou seja, não público. Ao seguir uma pessoa com o cadeado no profile, você envia uma requisitação para a pessoa que escolhe se lhe aceita ou não. Adicionaremos esta explicação ao Dicionário, obrigado!
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