twitterese

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "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.”"
• "The role of celebrity is to anchor a group (known in Twitterese as ‘followers’) into present-tense meaningfulness or future-facing conditions, which may be why newly minted celebrities are ever younger in the most prominent international popular-culture systems (Hollywood; music; social media)."
• "We might say that moving through all three languages from Shakespeare to Twitterese involves imaginatively going beyond the givens, creating a startling and novel declaration: “horses go all cannibal . . .”"
• "Based on the internet linguistics research (cf. Crystal 2006, 2008), we propose a unitary analysis of “paralinguistic devices” such as hashtags and punctuation devices found in Twitterese which ascribe “tonal colouring” to utterances, serving to express humour, sarcasm, irony, and self-deprecation."
• "On second look, the mainstream media resisted reporting the Anti-Theory story (~atoe in Twitterese) because it seemed so catastrophic."