twitterstorm

plural twitterstorms

1. Alternative letter-case form of Twitterstorm.

   This twitterstorm was unpleasant while it lasted but by the end of the week I had 7,000 followers.

   2012 April 14, Lynn Barber, “Diary”, in The Spectator

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   If you're clever, you can craft something that is retweet worthy, creating a realtime twitterstorm.

   2012, David Meerman Scott, Real-Time Marketing and PR: How to Instantly Engage Your Market, Connect with Customers, and Create Products that Grow Your Business Now, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 133

   One might wonder who thought such a shirt would be a big seller, and why, which is exactly what the twitterstorm of complaints against the seller was asking.

   2013, Joshua Klein, Reputation Economics: Why Who You Know Is Worth More Than What You Have, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 123

plural Twitterstorms · alternative twitterstorm

1. InternetA flurry of increased activity on the social network Twitter, especially over a controversy or popular event.

   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

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   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