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Twitpocalypse

Twitpocalypse noun: a massive outage or bug affecting Twitter.

Noun

Twitpocalypse (plural Twitpocalypses)

  1. (humorous) A massive outage or bug affecting Twitter.
    • This crash was supposed to happen sometime tomorrow, according to the countdown, but it looks like Twitter has just moved up the Twitpocalypse time to 21:00 GMT, which is 2 PM Pacific/5PM Eastern time today. Yes, in a couple hours.2009 June 12, M. G. Siegler, “Twitter Moves Up The Twitpocalypse. All Hell May Break Loose Today.”, in TechCrunch
    • The Twitpocalypse may have begun today [title]2023 February 9, Simon Sharwood, “The Twitpocalypse may have begun today”, in The Register

Forms of Twitpocalypse

pluralTwitpocalypses

Origin of Twitpocalypse

Blend of Twitter + apocalypse. Originally referring to the moment when the tweet identifier was expected to reach the 32-bit signed integer limit in June 2009.

Questions about Twitpocalypse

What does Twitpocalypse mean?
Twitpocalypse means a massive outage or bug affecting Twitter.
What part of speech is Twitpocalypse?
Twitpocalypse is a noun.
What is the plural of Twitpocalypse?
The plural of Twitpocalypse is Twitpocalypses.

Words near Twitpocalypse in the dictionary

  1. twitlings
  2. twitlist
  3. twitlisted
  4. twitlisting
  5. twitlists
  6. Twitpocalypse
  7. twits
  8. twitsome
  9. Twittard
  10. Twittards
  11. twitted

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