"Twitterese" meaning in All languages combined

See Twitterese on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Etymology: From Twitter + -ese. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Twitter|ese}} Twitter + -ese Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} Twitterese (uncountable)
  1. The type of language used on Twitter. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Twitter
    Sense id: en-Twitterese-en-noun-1k~uTRpv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ese

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          "ref": "2010, Jan Zimmerman, Doug Sahlin, Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies®, Wiley",
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          "ref": "2013, Adam L. Penenberg, Play at Work: How Games Inspire Breakthrough Thinking, Portfolio",
          "text": "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.”",
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          "ref": "2014, John Hartley, Jason Potts, Cultural Science: A Natural History of Stories, Demes, Knowledge and Innovation, Bloomsbury Academic, published 2016, page 86",
          "text": "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).",
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          "ref": "2016, John Barell, Moving from What to What If?: Teaching Critical Thinking with Authentic Inquiry and Assessments, Routledge",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2019, Eric J. Adams, Cosmic Fever, Black Rose Writing, page 132",
          "text": "On second look, the mainstream media resisted reporting the Anti-Theory story (~atoe in Twitterese) because it seemed so catastrophic.",
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