Tweetstorm
Tweetstorm – sostantivo
Tweetstorm – verbo
The primary argument against the Tweetstorm is that Twitter is designed for short bursts of sharing information or opinion.
Tweetstorms have been a subject of ridicule for a while now, and yet that doesn’t stop people from cooking them up, eliciting groans every time.
You may never have a need to Tweetstorm.
Un Tweetstorm, da non confondere con Twitter storm, è una sequenza di tweet, spesso numerati, mandati da una sola persona in rapida successione su un argomento specifico oppure rivolti a qualcuno in particolare, che consente di aggirare il limite di 140 caratteri collegando esplicitamente la serie di tweet. Ma proprio questa è la critica principale che gli viene rivolta, il fatto di sovvertire ciò che caratterizza Twitter, ovvero la brevità obbligatoria: chi vuol pubblicare messaggi più lunghi lo faccia usando un formato diverso.
Nato come sostantivo, Tweetstorm può anche assumere funzione verbale (vedi terzo esempio dato) e si è classificato secondo, dietro al verbo to @ (ovvero ‘to reply on Twitter using the @ symbol’), come parola dell’anno 2016 nella categoria digitale, dell’American Dialect Society.
Origini del termine
L’imprenditore e informatico Marc Andreessen ha coniato Tweetstorm (e ne ha registrato il marchio) nel 2014, utilizzando poi la tecnica per inviare lunghe sequenze di tweet ai suoi follower. Il termine è composto da Tweet e storm; il secondo elemento ha connotazioni negative di violenza rabbiosa, un po’ come la parola composta shitstorm, per molti versi simile.
Traduzione di Loredana Riu
Tweetstorm – noun
Tweetstorm – verb
The primary argument against the Tweetstorm is that Twitter is designed for short bursts of sharing information or opinion.
Tweetstorms have been a subject of ridicule for a while now, and yet that doesn’t stop people from cooking them up, eliciting groans every time.
You may never have a need to Tweetstorm.
A Tweetstorm, not to be confused with Twitter storm, is a sequence of tweets on the same subject, often numbered. It enables users to get round the 140 character limit by explicitly linking a succession of connected tweets together. Objections to it are generally based on the fact that it subverts Twitter’s defining characteristic, the enforced brevity, and that if people want to publish longer pieces they should use a different format.
Originally a noun, Tweetstorm can also be used as a verb, as in the third example above. Tweetstorm was runner up in the Digital Word of the Year category of the American Dialect Society’s Words of the Year, the winner being the verb to @ (‘to reply on Twitter using the @ symbol’).
Origins
Tweetstorm was coined (and trademarked) in 2014 by Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Marc Andreessen, who then used the technique to deliver long sequences of tweets to his followers. It is a closed compound formed of the words Tweet and storm, the second element having perhaps unfortunate connotations of violence and lack of control (rather like the somewhat similar compound noun shitstorm).
