Social Media Terminology

It’s a marketing campaignthat is so compelling that people share it, so it spreads.

Often called the Facebook for grown-ups, this is an online resume.

Descriptive words thatdescribe a piece of media.

Mini-applications that canlive away from their parents.

WhenTwitter experiences an outage this appears to alert users thatthe platform is down

Private message between two people. Generally used on Twitter but also appliesto Facebook

Photo taken themselves, using a front-facing camera or a mirror's reflection

A series of letters thatare used when someone tries to respond to a social media post.

Blogging platform you can pull in feeds from your other posts, share pictures, etc

Usedto organize pins; users can follow each otheror specific ones

The character limit for Twitter posts

Audio program in acompressed digital format, which is deigned to be listened to over the web.

Person who posts messages with the intention of causing an argument orharassing somebody else.

This is the Twitter equivalent to forwarding an email or “sharing” on Facebook.

Anevent where Twitter users meet in person; consisting of people with similar interests.