Microtext, Minitextin, Multitext, Intratext 12 Feb 2007

Amanda Willoughby at Adaptive Path has developed her own informal lexicon based on the behaviour enabled by different genres of text:

Microtext

Short formats like SMS suitable for sending messages when using a device with a constrained input, while short on time, or when you want to send a snippet of text like an address.

Minitextin

Formats that enable conversation-like exchanges; work best with an optimized, familiar input, like a QWERTY keyboard. May be synchronous as with active instant message chatting, semi-sychronous as with instant messaging while multi-tasking or asynchronous as in campfire.

Multitext

Texting to groups like twitter or dodgeball; good for spreading information across a network of people, provokes low-touch awareness and passive uptake of information. Context is often inferred.

Intratext

Sending text across multiple platforms like from AIM to cellphone. Or cellphone to blog.

Read more at Adaptive Path.