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Tweeps, Lolz and Photobomb - Oxford Dictionary Likes This.

You can now turn to the Oxford English Dictionary for the definitions of tweeps, lolz and photobomb!

Tweeps (pl. n.: a person’s followers on the social networking site Twitter), lolz (pl. n.: an expression of fun, laughter, or amusement; used especially online) and photobomb (n.: art of spoiling a photograph by suddenly appearing in the camera’s view as the picture is taken) are now officially part of the English language.

Here are some more:

inbox: v.: send a private message or an email to someone (typically another member of a social networking site or Internet message board).

lifecasting: n.: the practice of broadcasting a continuous live flow of video material on the Internet which documents one’s day-to-day activities.

micro pig: n.: a pig of a very small, docile, hairless variety, sometimes kept as a pet.

soul patch: n.: a small tuft of facial hair directly below a man’s lower lip.

vote: v. [new sense]: dismiss or reject someone or something as unsatisfactory [derived from the reality television show Survivor].

Wikipedian
: n.: a person who contributes to the collaboratively written online encyclopedia Wikipedia, esp. on a regular basis.

Mwahahaha
: excl.: used to represent laughter, especially manic or cackling laughter such as that uttered by a villainous character in a cartoon or comic strip

(Source: News24)