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Twitterese

Twitterese noun: the type of language used on Twitter.

Noun

Twitterese (uncountable)

  1. The type of language used on Twitter.
    • To learn Twitterese, review the tweets of other users to see how they’re condensing messages. Just remember to turn off Twitterese when you send an email to someone or compose a letter.2010, Jan Zimmerman, Doug Sahlin, Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies®, Wiley, →ISBN
    • Responding to a woman I’ve never met who works in book publishing, I type in the language of 140-character Twitterese: “I want Mr. T GPS voice! How abt James Earl Jones? He says turn left you *turn* left. Or Norah Jones? Plaintive directions.”2013, Adam L. Penenberg, Play at Work: How Games Inspire Breakthrough Thinking, Portfolio, →ISBN

Synonyms of Twitterese

Origin of Twitterese

From Twitter + -ese.

Questions about Twitterese

What does Twitterese mean?
Twitterese means the type of language used on Twitter.
What part of speech is Twitterese?
Twitterese is a noun.

Words near Twitterese in the dictionary

  1. Twitterbots
  2. Twitterdom
  3. twittered
  4. twitterer
  5. twitterers
  6. Twitterese
  7. Twitterfag
  8. Twitterfags
  9. Twitterfication
  10. Twittergate
  11. twittering

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