tweetstorm en · NOUN
Etymology
From tweet + storm.
Meanings
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(Internet, neologism) A series of tweets posted on the Twitter microblogging service in rapid succession.
“The company sent a flood of tweets—actually, we ought to call it what it was, an epically disastrous tweetstorm—aimed squarely at journalist Nancy Jo Sales insisting that the app is about so much more than hooking up.”
2015 August 11, Julia Greenberg, “Tinder completely freaked out on Twitter”, in Wired:
- (Internet, neologism) A storm of controversy arising from tweets posted on Twitter.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| tweetstorms | Number=Plur | lexicographic |