Tweavesdropping

What does tweavesdropping mean?

Eavesdropping on Twitter

A term that refers to people reading and following public Twitter conversations.

Eavesdropping is common on Twitter because conversations occur through public tweets and any follower can read the messages without the people in the conversation knowing it. Twitter conversations consist of participants sending each other messages via the @reply syntax.

Example

Did you hear about Kim's drama today?
Yeah, I was tweavesdropping on her Twitter page this morning

Related Slang

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TFFTwitter follower-friend
TPMTweets per minute
OOMFOne of my followers
RTRetweet
MTModified tweet
TTTrending topic
WTAWomen tell all

Categories

Social Media
Updated October 17, 2014

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