twibel

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noun

libel in the form of postings on the Twitter microblogging service

Scrabble 11

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twibel1

nountwibel (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of Twibel.

Twibel2

nounTwibel (uncountable)

alternative twibel

  1. informalneologismuncountablelibel in the form of postings on the Twitter microblogging service

    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
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    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

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