Etymology

Twitpocalypse

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Today it means: A massive outage or bug affecting Twitter. Full definition →

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The story

Blend of Twitter + apocalypse. Originally referring to the moment when the tweet identifier was expected to reach the 32-bit signed integer limit in June 2009.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.