Citations:tweetfest

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Noun: "an episode of frenzied and/or mass tweeting"[edit]

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  • 2009, Diane Pucin, "Lance Armstrong to ride in the Tour of California", Los Angeles Times, 23 October 2009:
    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??"
  • 2010, Peter Gicas, "Guilt-Ridden Jon Gosselin Comes Out From Under Rock; Kate Tries to Put Him Back", E! Online, 15 October 2010:
    Anyhow, Jon's tweetfest isn't sitting well with Team Kate.
  • 2010, Mary Elizabeth Williams, "Did Wal-Mart censor Kanye West?", Salon, 18 October 2010:
    Soon enough after his Sunday tweetfest, the Kanye cover became the most scrutizined image of a weekend devoid of significant celebrity nip slips.
  • 2011, Dan Shaughnessy, "Not a lot of budging by Selig", Boston Globe, 13 July 2011:
    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.
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    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.’’
  • 2012, Brandi Fowler, "Justin Bieber Helps Boost Organ Donor Registrations in Ontario", E! Online, 25 January 2012:
    Following Campbell and Bieber's tweetfest, the Ontario-based Trillium Gift of Life Network saw donations rise to 1,200 people, more than four times the amount the network usually receives, according to MTV.
  • 2013, Brian Reade, "Nigella Lawson pictures show it's time for real men to man up", The Mirror (UK), 20 June 2013:
    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.

Noun: "an environment or situation favorable to tweeting (?)"[edit]

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  • 2009, Dirk Smillie, "Journalism's Hottest Job", Forbes, 12 September 2009:
    It’s a tweetfest out there thanks to SMDs like Woody Lewis, a former rock musician and investment banker. Having advised 15 news organizations on how to craft social media strategies, Lewis is co-developing social media platforms for independent publisher Chronicle Books and authors a blog, “Save the Papers,” which debates how broadsheets can use social media to survive.