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Twitterfication en · NOUN

Etymology

From Twitter + -fication.

Meanings

  1. (informal, uncountable) Adaptation to the norms and values of (the users of) the social network Twitter.
    • We sat back and watched Facebook's Twitterfication take place last year, culminating with the launch of new privacy settings. 2014, Zhaohao Sun, Handbook of Research on Demand-Driven Web Services, page 205:
    • Further, as voice and sound enter multimedia culture, literacies of the ear, speech, and especially performance (e.g., think of the YouTube, Second Life, and Twitterfication of the Internet) also become part of the aesthetics and pedagogies of an expanded technoliteracy that should allow for multiple methods of learning. 2012, Peter Pericles Trifonas, Learning the Virtual Life: Public Pedagogy in a Digital World: