Four years of twitter messaging has turned into a dialect of its own.
Thanks to massive leaps in digital technology the world has become a much smaller place, almost everyone in a developed country has a mobile phone and the internet is the new global platform for media and mixed communications.
These days you have to keep up with the latest technology trends in order to know what's going on; in a similar way that mobile text messages are shortened Twitter users have their own sets of terms, which would fly over the heads of those who haven't used their service before.
Terms such as RT, Hashtags, @reply and DM are abbreviations for commonly used Twitter functions that help you do specific actions.
Aside from the basic bits of vocabulary, members have gone as far as developing their own twitter synonyms that work only within the boundaries of this popular social network website.
There is even a small published book called the "Twictionary" a complete listing of the constantly changing twitter associated words, which needs to be updated on a yearly basis to keep up with the new vocabulary being used by members.
Here are some of the types of the expressions that you might expect to find in this book: @reply - Posting an @ symbol before a followers name causes twitter to automatically change the persons name into a link to their personal twitter profile page.
RT - "Retweet" this is a function that allows you to repost other peoples Twitter posts on your own page, so that it's displayed to your followers.
FriendScraping - On Twitter you can search for and add friends to your following list; if you friend scrap it means you go into one of your friends followers lists and add them all as your own friends even if you don't know who they are.
MRT - This is a "Modified ReTweet" which means you've had to re-edit a twitter post for spelling mistakes or grammar issues.
Tweet Jacking - This is to take someone else's twitter post and change the link to your own in turn gaining all the credit for the content.
And others have gone as far as wearing their own Twitter language.