Maybe not a lot of people know that Twitter in Japan has its own vocabulary. Talking with your buddies on Twitter is kind of like meeting them on the street.
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\n\u3064\u3076\u3084\u304f tsubuyaku<\/i><\/p>\n
Literally, “to mutter”. But the real meaning, of course, is “to tweet”. The difference being that it’s a real word and not a horrid-sounding neologism. A related pun is \u7c92\u8c37\u533a, which makes an analogy between Twitter and Tokyo’s young Shibuya ward.<\/p>\n
xxx\u306a\u3046 nau<\/em><\/p>\n Appending \u306a\u3046 to a noun means that you’re doing it now. The origin is simply English. For example, “work\u306a\u3046” means you’re working, or “Shibuya\u306a\u3046” means you’re in Shibuya.<\/p>\n \u3075\u3041\u307c\u308b faboru<\/i><\/p>\n To add a tweet to your favorites.<\/p>\n RT @xxx, QT @xxx<\/p>\n “RT” is “retweet”, but in Japan tweets are often pasted as part of a quote. So, “QT”, “quote tweet”, is used to show that comments are appended to the end.<\/p>\n TL\u9045\u3044 TL osoi<\/i><\/p>\n Slow timeline. Not a lot is happening in the Twitterverse.<\/p>\n \u7206\u767a\u3057\u308d bakuhatsu shiro<\/i><\/p>\n “Blow it up.” Used to indicate what you want to do with an annoying person or event.<\/p>\n \u7247\u601d\u3044\u3001\u7247\u601d\u308f\u308c kataomoi, kataomoware<\/i><\/p>\n “Unrequited love.” When you’re following someone but they haven’t followed you back. When someone is doing the same to you, you use the latter, a complicated pun.<\/p>\n xxx\u3060\u3093 dan<\/i><\/p>\n “Done,” the much less popular companion of “now”. <\/p>\n \u3088\u308b\u307b\u30fc yoruhoo<\/i><\/p>\n If it happens to be exactly 12:00AM when you’re checking Twitter, you post a \u3088\u308b\u307b\u30fc to alert the world. The sound is like an owl.<\/p>\n \u30d2\u30a6\u30a3\u30c3\u30d2\u30d2\u30fc hwihhihii<\/i><\/p>\n It’s an arrangement of katakana that mildly resembles the Twitter logo.\u3000\u30d2w\u30a3\u30d2\u30d2er — see it?<\/p>\n \u30c7\u30a3\u30b9\u308b disuru<\/i><\/p>\n To disrespect someone. This 80’s hip hop term made its way into Twitter slang in some inexplicable way.<\/p>\n