If you hear something funny or insightful with your ears (as opposed to reading it on Twitter) and you want to repeat it, you can prefix it with OH. Generally, this is used anonymously, not for quoting people, so you tend to read things that might be personally embarrassing to whoever actually said it. Here’s an example:
Twitter OH means OverHeard
In the example above, nmyra overheard a funny slam, but she’s being polite and not telling us who slammed who. It’s enjoyable to try to reverse-engineer who she’s around at the moment, but that is left as an exercise for the reader.
This is slang, not a system function. Twitter doesn’t do anything special if you put in the OH.
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Twitter doesn’t do anything special with these sorts of posts, but http://overheard.it does. Follow @overheard on Twitter and it’ll start scanning your tweets for those that start with “OH” or “Overheard” and displays them on the site.
Posted on May 19th, 2009 at 8:11 am
That was very helpful. Your page came up first in Google for “Twitter OH”. Thanks for the insights.
Posted on July 21st, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Huh, I just looked this up and now I know. Thanks. I kept seeing it and thought it stood for “other half”, meaning something your spouse said.
Posted on October 6th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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