Twitterstorm

See also: twitterstorm

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Twitter + storm

Noun

Twitterstorm (plural Twitterstorms)

  1. (Internet) A flurry of increased activity on the social network Twitter, especially over a controversy or popular event.
    • 2010, Rick Mathieson, The On-Demand Brand: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World, AMACOM, →ISBN, page 79:
      Witness the “Twitterstorm” Domino's faced when a video surfaced of one franchisee's employees adding, shall we say, extra ingredients to its pizzas.
    • 2013, Bill McKibbon, Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist, Times Books, →ISBN, page 154:
      It wasn't entirely bad; it allowed me to get online to help with the Twitterstorm we were organizing to draw attention to fossil fuel subsidies as world leaders arrived in Rio for an environmental summit.
    • 2013 May 17, “Eurovision is marching to the beat of a different drum”, in Belfast Telegraph:
      There was an almost-instant Twitterstorm. The entire British Eurovision audience […] went completely berserk.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Twitterstorm.
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