SpinVox has conducted a survey among Americans, Brits and Canadians that use the ‘Ping through SpinVox’ service to post Twitter updates to reveal the places from where people now tweet and the resulting new slang that is emerging in the Twittersphere.
SpinVox says the Ping through SpinVox voice-powered social network service has been taken up by thousands of Twitter users who want to break free of the need to have access to a keyboard or broadband connection. Users simply speak their updates.
Many users report that the freedom to speak their Twitter updates enables them to tweet from some unusual places. The survey found that while most SpinVox speak-a-tweet users (84%) admitted to tweeting in public while travelling, some preferred more privacy, with 23% reported tweeting from the privacy of the bathroom.
Speaking a tweet during fitness was reported as a regular part of the routine of those using a treadmill (13%) or jogging in the park (25%). Some of the more common places reported for tweeting through SpinVox included shopping (37%), while cooking (17%) or when enjoying outdoor events such as music festivals (8%) and waiting in line to get into events such as football games (5%).
Not only has voice-powered tweeting seen SpinVox users communicating from unusual places but the phenomenon has created many more new words which are being picked up and learned by VMCS, SpinVox’s automated speech-to-text conversion system, as people start to use them in their everyday conversations. As such, the company says, they represent the `Voxgeist` of the way people actually speak today.
The top 10 Twitterverse-related slang words and phrases found in the SpinVox Voxgeist are currently:
- Hashtag: a way of marking an event or common theme e.g. “I’m off to Mobile Geeks of New York #MGoNY”
- #Follow Friday: a weekly event, where you recommend your favorite Twitterers to your followers.
- Dabr: a mobile web interface for Twitter.
- Twetiquette: appropriate behaviour when using Twitter.
- Twitpoll: a survey/question posed on Twitter
- Tweetdeck: one of the most popular desktop interfaces for Twitter.
- Twhirl: a smaller, less intrusive desktop interface for Twitter
- Mashable Effect: the result of @mashable, aka Pete Cashmore, founder of Mashable.com, re-tweeting your site/blog address and causing it to overload with web traffic.
- Tweetup: a meeting organized on Twitter.
- Twestival: a charity event organized using Twitter
There’s more information on updating Twitter or multiple social network sites simultaneously using Ping through SpinVox here.
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