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Are you fluent in Twitter speak?

It's the social networking craze of the moment; everyone's doing it from the likes of President Barack Obama to Stephen Fry, even rap superstar P Diddy keeps users posted.

In fact if you're not Twittering by now then you're way behind the times and had better become wise to the micro-blogging service which enables users to send and read messages (known as tweets).

But do you know a 'nudge' from a 'dweet' or are you 'illtwiterate'? Take the test and see how well you know the language from Twitter as featured in the Twitionary!

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