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Twitter, the social cross between IM’s and blogging, is so buggy and frequently screwed up that I’ve started to use it as a euphemism for one of the English language’s most versatile words. Therefor, I offer this as a guide. (how’s that for branding?)

In language, “twitter” falls into many grammatical categories.

• Twitter can be used as a verb both transitive (he twittered her) and intransitive (she was twittered by him).
• a active verb (he really gives a twitter),
• a passive verb (she really doesn’t give a twitter),
• an adverb (she is twittering interested in him) and
• a noun (she is a fine twitter).
• an adjective (she is twittering beautiful).

As you can see there is a whole lot of real versatility with “twitter”. It pops up everywhere. Besides its sexual connotation, this lovely word can be used to describe many situations:

• GREETING - How the twitter are you?
• FRAUD - I got twittered by that crook;
• DISMAY - Oh, twitter it!;
• TROUBLE - I’m twittered now!;
• CONFUSION - What the twitter?!;
• AGGRESSION - “Twitter you!”;
• DISGUST - “Twitter me”
• DESPAIR - Twittered again!;
• PHILOSOPHY - “Who gives a twitter?”
• INCOMPETENCE - “He’s a real twitter-off”;
• DISPLEASURE - “What the twitter is going on here?”
• NUMEROLOGY - “Sixty-twitterin’-nine”;
• LOST - “Where the twitter are we?”
• DISBELIEF - “Untwitteringbelievable
• RETALIATION - Up your twittering a$$!”
• REBELLION - Twitter it!;
• DISPLEASURE - What the twitter’s going on?;
• SATISFACTION - twitter me again!

Also as:

• DESCRIPTIVE ANATOMY - “He’s a twitterin’ a$$hole!”
• TO TELL TIME - “It’s six-twittering-thirty.”
• PREDICTION - “Well, I’ll be twittered!”
• A POLITICAL STATEMENT - “Twitter Washington”
• INCESTUOUS - “Mothertwitterer”
• A PUT DOWN - “Twitter off, buster!”
• ALL ENCOMPASSING - “Twitter ‘em all!”
• GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS - “Twitter the IRS”
• A POKER HAND- “A royal twitter”
• TO START A RELATIONSHIP - “Let’s twitter now!”
• AS AN ACCEPTANCE - “Twitterin’ eh!”
• ENJOYMENT - “Twitterin’ Wow!” ”
• A CLOSING - “Twitteringly yours”.
• MATERNAL - “Mothertwitterer”