Tweetstorm


A tweetstorm is a series of related tweets posted by a Twitter user in quick succession.
The word tweetstorm has been used by Twitter users since 2008. In the beginning, it referred not to a lot of tweets shared by one individual, but to a number of different individuals quickly tweeting about the same topic. Often in these instances the tweets had a unifying hashtag. The newer definition, and the one most typically used since its creation, was coined and popularized in 2014 by Marc Andreesen and Chris Dixon.
When used by one person, tweetstorms are a way to work around Twitter’s character count limitation. In 2017, Twitter announced the launch of a new feature that would allow people to more easily post tweetstorms. The threads feature saw a new plus button added to Twitter. With it, people could type out a series of tweets and then tap “Tweet all” to share the tweetstorm. Before this feature, tweetstorms were connected to each other as @replies.
Tweetstorm was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2019.
The word also influenced the creation of the word podstorm, a series of related podcast episodes published by a podcaster in quick succession.