Twitterstorm
nounEtymology Twitter + storm
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Internet A flurry of increased activity on the social network Twitter, especially over a controversy or popular event.
- Witness the “Twitterstorm” Domino's faced when a video surfaced of one franchisee's employees adding, shall we say, extra ingredients to its pizzas.2010, Rick Mathieson, The On-Demand Brand: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World, AMACOM, →ISBN, page 79:
- 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, Bill McKibbon, Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist, Times Books, →ISBN, page 154:
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- There was an almost-instant Twitterstorm. The entire British Eurovision audience […] went completely berserk.2013 May 17, “Eurovision is marching to the beat of a different drum”, in Belfast Telegraph: