Nerd Word of the Day: Twoogle

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Twoogle: asking your followers a question on Twitter, that could easily have been Googled instead.

Another word to go with my obsession with Twitter.

I’m certainly guilty of twoogling! Have you twoogled?

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  • hs4mm

    This is a good word — there is a good google page for this which I need to find.

  • http://www.youtube.com/xxstokjrj1xx John

    I don’t think I’ve twoogled yet, err can’t remember, I refuse to answer on the grounds it might incriminate someone, Not that I can recall!

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    I don’t care to twoogle. I usually am the one giving answers rather than asking for them.

  • http://www.youtube.com/xxstokjrj1xx John

    Y Yes I have, [Tailmail]

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    BTW, how about “twittard” for someone who spends all his/her time on twitter making an ass of him-/herself? Actually, that would cover a large percentage of users, wouldn’t it? :razz: :lol: :wink:

  • hs4mm

    Found the link click here.

  • hs4mm

    Explanation: Someone asks you a question about something they should have googled for themselves, first send them to the justfuckinggoogleit page and have that page auto-redirect itself to the google search they should have done on their own.

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    justfuckinggoogleit page

    Well fucking played… :neutral: ( :roll: )

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-8LP9dcu9A freebird

    When someone gets mad the have a “shitfit”… maybe this word will become :idea:”twitfit”:idea: when enough people get mad using twitter.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-8LP9dcu9A freebird

    correction… “they have” ooops! :oops:

  • originalistrick

    Clever. I remain a twitter virgin(watch somebody come up with a nerdword for that soon – “twirgin”?), but that is a clever one.

  • http://www.youtube.com/xxstokjrj1xx John

    So cool how you reply and reply and reply too, oh never mind.

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    You’re funny! :lol:

  • seesixcm6

    I put up a question on twitter, but it’s still unanswered. I don’t consider that a twoogle.
    I actually joined twitter to comment on the beautiful pictures you post, Marina. I’ve posted a few photos, but they hardly get any traffic, compared to yours.
    Seesixcm6

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    Nice gravatar!

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    And speaking of gravatars, how about gravatard for someone who uses annoying, lame, and/or poorly designed/displayed gravatars?

  • mukmika.

    I Always Google. As kids, my brother and I had a lot of our own words. For instance, anything really big was ‘delojous’. Did’nt have same lingo with my four sisters. Guess this happens with a lot of siblings. What has this to do with Twoogle? Absolutely nothing! But remember, a stitch in time gathers no moss.

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    Funny! :lol:

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688?68581 leonard

    [whacked] or [wacked] or waxed on your wings :lol:

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688?68581 leonard

    I agree :razz:

  • http://laserradio.com/gallery2.html wyo550

    I TWO oogle everytime I Hot For Words

  • ilikesexytime

    get naked

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    Huh? Where’s the Jacuzzi? :razz: :wink:

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688?68581 leonard

    :neutral: capital has formed into and from propaganda…advertizing; like snake oil…and very much BS…..the holy cow of free milk…texting cannot be VIRGin :lol:

  • greatestpotential

    :oops: I don’t Twoog and tell.

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688?68581 leonard

    I request [traffic], to know what you know. :razz:

  • greatestpotential

    :lol: I sure toggle a lot though :!:

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    You make me smile! :smile: :grin: :mrgreen:

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688?68581 leonard

    I’m lame,…mf. ….[duck,quack]what cap you got…1,2,3,soul cute,lost dopes of England :shock:

    HeaLth lAw ain’t lAME…lol

    ….fake love, faith of $$$ :cool:

  • greatestpotential

    I like to go to Radio Shack and sort through the mix and match industrial mo jo bulgas. For me it’s a thrill to retool- it’s like super glue, que tips, an assortment of magnifying glasses and a box of latex gloves with hours to hobby in labor intensive research.

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688?68581 leonard

    Twitter is a non-profit spy center :eek:

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    You sound like a real MacGyver (not McCoy).

    BTW, “mo jo bulgas”? That’s a new one to me.

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    :idea: You need to create an index for YouTube, sorted by subject or whatever.

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688?68581 leonard

    shit, or get off the shitter(pot)

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688?68581 leonard

    TWIT..or , get off the TWITTER :evil: poop, or get pooped out with the rest of the twit :wink: little pussy lenny of smelling nardly… :cool:

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    shitter-pitter… pitter-patter… patterson, ol’ Floyd’ll give you a black eye, fo shizzle or a pink eye (maybe)… :eek: Pink Floyd Patterson :mrgreen: Another Black Eye in the Wall… don’t wall me out :shock:

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    twitter… twit’er… twit her … get of her twit… get of her tw*t :shock:

    tiger tiger tiger

    lion lion lion >:3

    I ain’t lion to ya! :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

  • greatestpotential

    :grin: Actually, I like to do it in groups. )do it, do it(

    Perhaps you’ve heard how the MacGruber (PepSuber) motto goes:

    “Want something done you gotta do it yourself!”

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    But first lemme take a swig o’ this…

    Oh, you forgot to tell me what “mo jo bulgas” are. :???:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/bsomebody13 bsomebody

    Sometimes I’ll ask a question here instead of googling. I’m often more interested in the commentors’ ideas than in the “accepted” commentary. :cool:

  • greatestpotential

    How about Who wants to be a Twitternaire? The idea is to get a million followers anyway that you can. You get a choice of lifelines to accomplish this task :arrow: the fifty-fifty, ask the audience, and phone-a-friend. Anyone with half a brain knows the friend on the other end of the line is usually googling for that answer coz if you listen real hard you can sometimes hear these people’s fingers tapping out the question into the google search engine.

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    Good point. :!:

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    if you listen real hard you can sometimes hear these people’s fingers tapping

    You’re funny! :mrgreen:

    BTW, why not twitteraire? The “-n” belongs to “million“, y’know.

  • greatestpotential

    I figure it’s time for me to get in on the money wagon in these so-called “troubled economic times” :roll: and cash in on this going green business. It’s obvious these dweebs touting this sort of talk want to force it upon everyone with their bogus laws and enforcement tactics so instead of sheeping it, make some mo jo backpacks instead:

  • greatestpotential

    :!: Hey, that was smart! Can I call you “Brains”? :wink:

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    Sure. But then call me a cab, this weather is nuts! Nuttier than those wretched peanut-butter scares! :eek:

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    mojo = magic; like voodoo, only not as yucky
    bulga = bolsa???; i.e., bag, to keep their money in :???:

  • greatestpotential

    See here Sir! There’s a method to madness. Why be a Mc Coy when you can be Bones instead? That’s why it pays off to watch each and every HotForWords video lesson. Satchel up! You gotta know about the origin of the word BUDGET first though:

    http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/03/26/budget/

    {wordlover, you may want to take notes}

  • greatestpotential

    :sad: No edit. What if someone accidently posts an adult website link or a naughty personal photo, er, not like it would happen to me. Just asking.

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    But why be a Bones when you can be Kirk instead?

    _/¯˚¯

    (Terrible Starship Enterprise! :sad: Do you happen to know a good short-ASCII version)

  • greatestpotential

    Alright Brains, Acab, etc. and you can call me GP if you like :grin:

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    I guess when you post something and someone comments to it you would be able to edit it and make their comment look stupid. F’rinstance…

    —original post—
    ZIVO: Do you like coconut?
    LUBA: Of course I do! I can’t get enough! It’s delicious!

    —altered post—
    ZIVO: Do you swallow?
    LUBA: Of course I do! I can’t get enough! It’s delicious!

    Y’dig?

  • greatestpotential

    :twisted: Well, I sorta have an anger streak like Bones and he gets to make fun of Spock and Scotty all the time.

    duh, duh duh, duh duh…duhduhduh _____ ._\__==

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    How ’bout [jeep] for short?

    (Ahem, Marina, there’s another word origin idea! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: )

  • greatestpotential

    :mrgreen: Sure, I dig.

    Is this okay?

    ZIVO: Do you come here often?
    LUBA: Of course I do! Lots! I can’t do it enough!
    It’s spunky as spunkbutter!

    :?:

  • greatestpotential

    Hmmm. I see what you mean.

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    Short-ASCII* art is good, clean fun. ASCII art is good—when it works! :roll:

    *That is, :) for smiley vs.

    ·····O·O·····
    ····•····•····
    ·····•••·····

    for smiley

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    Oops! That should have been

    :­) for smiley vs.{…}

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    And I see what you mean. That is, there should be an option of editing your own post until someone responds to it.

  • greatestpotential

    :smile: Exactly wordlover. I may go with “Jeep” some other time.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/DPS670950 Me Lika Do The Cha Cha

    Seems like Twitter is the source of all these goofy words.
    It started simple enough… Twitter begat tweet.
    .
    twoogle? two-ogle – :lol:
    (ogle, with a friend – LOL)
    .
    Marina could do a brief history video of Nerd Words
    “dot com”.. :idea:
    that have a been around longer than Twitter
    (for when they run out of good ideas) :mrgreen:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/DPS670950 Me Lika Do The Cha Cha

    Oops! (no edit function)
    have a been

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688?68581 leonard

    oops

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    Hey, our gravatars shrank! WTF? :???:

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688?68581 leonard

    know SHIT :idea:

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    Now my gravatar is back to the snow leopard! What is this madness? :???:

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    Pardon me?

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    I see that you have won an olive green border for your comment boxes. Congrats!

  • ilikesexytime

    i want to see your soles. WORD REQUEST [SOLES]

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/animalntaz animalntaz

    Never twoogled….. How about Moogled? :mrgreen:

  • http://www.youtube.com/CheVolay Che Volay

    It happens here all the time ppl ask stuff they could easily have Googled.

    I just figured ppl a basically dumb. :shock:

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688?68581 leonard
  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688?68581 leonard

    I hope for you all to have HAPPY fools dAY! :cool:

  • http://www.912project.com cruiserct

    This probably is an April fools joke.
    Toogle: to serch on twtter for something.
    :razz:
    Have a great day

  • spelcheck

    Well Twoogle Me !!!

  • neuroway

    I think tweets and tweeteresses from twitter can be quite serious LOLZ sometimes.

    Wouldn’t ask anything to them though. Well, at least not by the way of twitter. It would feel like asking the wind to bring me some wisdom. Which would be quite foolish. That is, of course, my own personal opinion, wide and largely open, as always, to constructive criticism.

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688?68581 leonard

    [nard]…Foghat- Fool For The City (live) :lol: april first day, time to clean your chimney
    [AIR] or aired…..[chig gers]… :smile: :twisted:

  • http://www.youtube.com/xxstokjrj1xx John

    Marina,
    …Twitter cartoons for a twitter obsessed lover, lover, with teachers guide also http://tinyurl.com/cmfrtd , have fun!

  • charles

    hello

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688?68581 leonard

    checking the time of comment….?Pistol Grip Pump – Rage Against The Machine

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/CantwrCymreig Evan Owen

    “Guilty?” You missed the point of twoogling your question. Google connects us to the [übermind], but sometimes it’s fun to rub synapses with our local neurons. :grin:

  • http://www.youtube.com/xxstokjrj1xx John

    All I got to say is “Call no Man Fool”

  • niteowl

    Maybe someday I’ll send you one of these messages via twitter, but not today. (Don’t even try to get me to say the so-called word)

    You asked if we dream at all. Only of you, Marina…giving us a new word lesson, of course.

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688?68581 leonard

    Twits are for the nerds…non-profit spy agency….Strata – “Cocaine (We’re All Going to Hell)”

    nerds words are for who they are…coke heads…its legal like Freud; fraud…Marina!!!…crack the [EGG]…egg-text or coked out? :lol:

    …TwITS:hang-out…limit on character :smile:

  • http://www.geocities.com/jmythh2k5/MyBrary.html mythman

    It would’ve been good of you to provide an example of such a question.

    Myself, I’ve never thought of Google as a place to ask questions; more appropriate, I think, would be ‘Twask Yahoo!’ or maybe ‘Twikipedia.’

    I know people don’t confuse Twitter with MyLot, where you can get paid for asking questions!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/DPS670950 Me Lika Do The Cha Cha

    :mrgreen:
    Hey! Edit function works, again – Huzzah

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    MLDTCC! Welcome back! :mrgreen:

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    “Get paid for asking questions” Wow! Tell me more! (I went to the site and didn’t know what to click and I assume you know how it works.)

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/DPS670950 Me Lika Do The Cha Cha

    Checking site parms* for upgrades
    *parms = parameters
    1. The Forum background and menu bars now
    match home and lesson page.
    2. Lesson pages are no longer paginated.
    3. Gravatars are smaller, again
    4. The Edit function worfs!

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    worfs or works?

    BTW, the gravatars appear normal-sized to me. :???:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/DPS670950 Me Lika Do The Cha Cha

    That’s because you’ve been off Twittering,
    as Strabismus, eh?
    Marina is tweaking her site software. :mrgreen:

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    What is because I’ve been off Twittering? In case you can’t see it too, my gravatar is displayed as a snow leopard in a bluish light. It should be the same one I use on twitter.

  • hs4mm

    You can find an example in the twitter window to the right. Look for tweets starting from about 2 hr 5 min before you made the above comment. The tweet was “My twoogle of the day: what is polenta made out of”. There were tons of tweets in response. Consider those tweet-responses; and consider this link (wait about 15 seconds after clicking).

    For the above example,

    .

    How illuminating were the tweet responses when compared to, say, the wikipedia entry?

    .

    How much time did it take to make the original twoogle and review the tweet-responses compared to doing a google search and reviewing the google-hits?

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    In other words, I actually just twoogled. Gee, thanks for saying so… :razz:

  • http://www.geocities.com/jmythh2k5/MyBrary.html mythman

    @wordlver: I think it’s the orange button in the left upper corner under “myLot.” Then it’s pretty much following instructions.You’re a smart guy; you’ll figure out where the money is!

  • http://twitter.com/Strabismus wordlover

    If I were really smart I could rid the world of worm viruses, kiddiots (q.v.), scrooges, diseases, taxes, politicians, and bad humans! :razz:

  • http://www.geocities.com/jmythh2k5/MyBrary.html mythman

    Awesome! :grin:

  • Lennie

    I hadn’t heared of Twoogle before, but I did hear from someone who doesn’t care for all these social networking sites the word: myface. ;-)

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/capman911 Capman911

    Hey Doug, Hows it been going? ;-) The site has changed some. The blue name that used to take you to your personal web site now goes to a site on what you have commented on. Your Gravatar now goes to your web site if you have a web site set up in the Dashboard. I don’t like the changes, but I am just one person in a world of millions. :roll: Glad to see you back. :smile:

  • Greatest Potential

    I was getting ready to twoogle something then I read what stevie_ryan said!

    No, I’m not a lesbian, at least I don’t think so, there was that time at that (unspecified date/place) which turned into a couch party scene. I will explain sometime.

  • Greatest Potential

    Sad to hear that stevie_ryan has a bias when it comes to humanity. She has more aliens on her FB friends list than humans.

    shed some more tears for the human race people!

  • http://vkontakte.ru/id25408688 leonard

    Twoogle: asking your followers a question on Twitter, that could easily have been Googled instead.

    Another word to go with my obsession with Twitter.

    I’m certainly guilty of twoogling! Have you twoogled?

    :cool: :razz: :cool: :mrgreen: :lol: There are no events. :cry:
    More » Quote”The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.” – Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live …I request_-_ _-_[AIDS] or [aides]_-_ _-_government-sex____blowing away good AMERICAN money on [SLUT]_–_[LABOR] :lol:

  • Greatest Potential

    I didn’t get to bid on those ebay items. Bummer. What’s HotForWords reading(?) i wanna twoogle it

  • Greatest Potential

    I’ve got 3 books going here dear teacher. Multitask reader.

  • Greatest Potential

    children ask grown adults “Why is the sky blue?” kids are natural born twooglers

    twitter fosters a return to innocence. tweeting is for the youth of today, tomorrow, and the currently uncertain now

  • Greatest Potential

    I used to call up late night college radio shows and twoogle music trivia stuff that was being broadcast live, like: “What was the band Black Sabbath called before they changed their name to Black Sabbath”(?)

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