Twitterese

Meanings

nounTwitterese (uncountable)

uncountableThe type of language used on Twitter.
On second look, the mainstream media resisted reporting the Anti-Theory story (~atoe in Twitterese) because it seemed so catastrophic.
2019, Eric J. Adams, Cosmic Fever, Black Rose Writing, →ISBN, page 132
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To learn Twitterese, review the tweets of other users to see how they’re condensing messages. Just remember to turn off Twitterese when you send an email to someone or compose a letter.
2010, Jan Zimmerman, Doug Sahlin, Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies®, Wiley, →ISBN
Responding to a woman I’ve never met who works in book publishing, I type in the language of 140-character Twitterese: “I want Mr. T GPS voice! How abt James Earl Jones? He says turn left you *turn* left. Or Norah Jones? Plaintive directions.”
2013, Adam L. Penenberg, Play at Work: How Games Inspire Breakthrough Thinking, Portfolio, →ISBN
The role of celebrity is to anchor a group (known in Twitterese as ‘followers’) into present-tense meaningfulness or future-facing conditions, which may be why newly minted celebrities are ever younger in the most prominent international popular-culture systems (Hollywood; music; social media).
2014, John Hartley, Jason Potts, Cultural Science: A Natural History of Stories, Demes, Knowledge and Innovation, Bloomsbury Academic, published 2016, →ISBN, page 86
We might say that moving through all three languages from Shakespeare to Twitterese involves imaginatively going beyond the givens, creating a startling and novel declaration: “horses go all cannibal . . .”
2016, John Barell, Moving from What to What If?: Teaching Critical Thinking with Authentic Inquiry and Assessments, Routledge, →ISBN
Based on the internet linguistics research (cf. Crystal 2006, 2008), we propose a unitary analysis of “paralinguistic devices” such as hashtags and punctuation devices found in Twitterese which ascribe “tonal colouring” to utterances, serving to express humour, sarcasm, irony, and self-deprecation.
2018, Ewelina Prażmo, “Twitterati in the Twitterverse: A Cognitive Linguistics Account of Hashtags on Twitter”, in Rafał Augustyn, Agnieszka Mierzwińska-Hajnos, editors, New Insights into the Language and Cognition Interface, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, part three (Multimodality in Language Processing), page 118
Synonyms: Twitterish, Twitterspeak