twitfic
twitfic noun: fiction hosted on the microblogging site Twitter; twiction.
Noun
twitfic (countable and uncountable, plural twitfics)
- Fiction hosted on the microblogging site Twitter; twiction.
- Steve indulges on occasion with a bit of 140character long fiction but he admits, “I start each of mine with the word 'TWITFIC!' to tell people what I'm doing, so I really get 131.” Some of his TwitFic went like this: “I'm from the[…]2009 June 29, Tee Morris, All a Twitter: A Personal and Professional Guide to Social Networking with Twitter, Que Publishing, →ISBN
- He's had twitfic published in @tweetthemeat, @thaumatrope, and @outshine, among others. Join his twitfic community at twitfic.com. F.I. Goldhaber F.i. Goldhaber has had short stories, novels, poems, features, essays,[…]2010 October 15, J. S. Graustein, Rose Auslander, On a Narrow Windowsill: Fiction and Poetry Folded Onto Twitter, Folded Word, →ISBN, page 145
- Synonyms:
- twiction
Examples of twitfic in a sentence
- Meanwhile, The Guardian ran Twitfics from twenty-one heavyweights including Jeffrey Archer, Geoff Dyer, and Ian Rankin.2013 November 14, David Comfort, An Insider's Guide to Publishing, Penguin, →ISBN:
- The first is 'twitfic', mentioned by several TV 2.0 participants.2017 March 30, Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick, Thomas Poell, The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, SAGE, →ISBN:
- Legend has it that Hemingway won a barbet by composing the first Twitfic on an Algonquin bar napkin: “Classified: Baby Goods.2013 November 14, David Comfort, An Insider's Guide to Publishing, Penguin, →ISBN:
Synonyms of twitfic
Forms of twitfic
| plural | twitfics |
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Origin of twitfic
Blend of Twitter + fic.
Questions about twitfic
- What does twitfic mean?
- Twitfic means fiction hosted on the microblogging site Twitter; twiction.
- How do you use twitfic in a sentence?
- Meanwhile, The Guardian ran Twitfics from twenty-one heavyweights including Jeffrey Archer, Geoff Dyer, and Ian Rankin.
- What part of speech is twitfic?
- Twitfic is a noun.
- What is the plural of twitfic?
- The plural of twitfic is twitfics.
Words near twitfic in the dictionary
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