Friends Don’t Let Friends Be Twankers
July 16, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
Say what? You don’t know what a "twanker" is these days? I’ll bet you can guess that it has something to do with twitter because every word that starts with "tw…" these days has to be related to twitter somehow right?
The word "twanker" was conceived as a result of some crowdsourcing by Jeffrey Hayzlett, Chief Marketing Officer at Kodak, during the 140 Characters Conference in New York last month. He shared about the origins in on his 1000 words blog.
The combination comes from being a "wanker" on twitter. Wanker of course comes from the popular term from merry ol’ …read more
