Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

twitpocalypse

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: twit-poca-lypse
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A massive outage or bug affecting Twitter.

Humorous

Example Sentences

"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."
"The Twitpocalypse may have begun today [title]"

Etymology

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.

Usage

Humorous

Inflected Forms

Twitpocalypses (plural)

Questions

What does twitpocalypse mean?: A massive outage or bug affecting Twitter.
Where does twitpocalypse come from?: 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.

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