Twibel
nounEtymology Blend of Twitter + libel.
- 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:
- 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: