Meaning of tweetfest | Babel Free

Definitions

An episode of frenzied and/or mass tweeting.

Internet, slang

Examples

“In a scripted tweetfest, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger questioned Armstrong about his possible participation. Armstrong tweeted, "Absolutely!@schwarzenegger, I've decided to ride⟳ the #Amgen Tour of California in 2010. Can't wait⟳. What about you @levileipheimer??"”

“Old School was on parade late yesterday morning in a conference room on the second floor of the downtown Sheraton here. Seventy-six-year-old Commissioner Bud Selig, on the job almost 20 years, was on hand to answer⟳ questions for the Baseball Writers of America and it felt like⟳ we were all stuck in the 1950s. […] This was no new-media tweetfest. If lodge members had been better-dressed and better-looking, we could have⟳ been on the set⟳ of “Mad Men.’’”

“Had Kerry Katona been snapped getting throttled by her partner outside a Toby Carvery in Warrington, and stayed silent, I’m sure there’d have⟳ been a tweetfest about Little Miss⟳ Thickoe betraying her gender by failing to report⟳ the Neanderthal scumbag.”

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