The Twitter terminology, like any made up terminology, takes a bit of effort to learn. A few terms for you;
Twitter – the company, the application
Tweet – a broadcast message sent over the Twitter application
Tweets – more than one Tweet
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Twitterers – people that tweet
Tweeple – twitter friends
Followers – Twitterers that subscribe to read read your tweets
Friends – Twitterers that you subscribe to so that you can read their tweets
RT – re-tweet. Sending along someone else’s tweet that you read and liked, often adding a comment
Hashtag # – Adding the # character to any set of characters makes them search-able. Widely used at conferences.
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