tweetstorm

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noun

A series of tweets posted on the Twitter microblogging service in rapid succession.

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Meanings

nountweetstorm (plural tweetstorms)

plural tweetstorms

  1. InternetneologismA series of tweets posted on the Twitter microblogging service in rapid succession.

    “The company sent a flood of tweets—actually, we ought to call it what it was, an epically disastrous tweetstorm—aimed squarely at journalist Nancy Jo Sales insisting that the app is about so much more than hooking up.”

    2015 August 11, Julia Greenberg, “Tinder completely freaked out on Twitter”, in Wired
  2. InternetneologismA storm of controversy arising from tweets posted on Twitter.

Origin

From tweet + storm.

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APA

tweetstorm. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tweetstorm

MLA

“tweetstorm.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tweetstorm. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tweetstorm,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tweetstorm.

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