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Twitterfication

Twitterfication noun: adaptation to the norms and values of (the users of) the social network Twitter.

Noun

Twitterfication (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Adaptation to the norms and values of (the users of) the social network Twitter.
    • Further, as voice and sound enter multimedia culture, literacies of the ear, speech, and especially performance (e.g., think of the YouTube, Second Life, and Twitterfication of the Internet) also become part of the aesthetics and pedagogies of an expanded technoliteracy that should allow for...2012, Peter Pericles Trifonas, Learning the Virtual Life: Public Pedagogy in a Digital World
    • We sat back and watched Facebook's Twitterfication take place last year, culminating with the launch of new privacy settings.2014, Zhaohao Sun, Handbook of Research on Demand-Driven Web Services, page 205

Origin of Twitterfication

From Twitter + -fication.

Questions about Twitterfication

What does Twitterfication mean?
Twitterfication means adaptation to the norms and values of (the users of) the social network Twitter.
What part of speech is Twitterfication?
Twitterfication is a noun.

Words near Twitterfication in the dictionary

  1. twitterer
  2. twitterers
  3. Twitterese
  4. Twitterfag
  5. Twitterfags
  6. Twitterfication
  7. Twittergate
  8. twittering
  9. twitteringly
  10. twitterings
  11. twitterish

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