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Twibel en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of Twitter + libel.

Meanings

1. (informal, neologism, uncountable) libel in the form of postings on the Twitter microblogging service
   • Twitter, for example, has a structure (maximum 140 characters) that encourage^([sic]) such [quick, thoughtless] statements, leading to “twibel” actions. 2015, Serap Kurbanoglu, Sonja Spiranec, Esther Grassian, Information Literacy, page 105:
   • The most notorious Twitter libel case, sometimes called Twibel cases, involved rocker Courtney Love. 2013, Robert Trager, Joseph Russomanno, Susan Dente Ross, The Law of Journalism and Mass Communication, page 154:

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