Twitpocalypse

English

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.

Noun

Twitpocalypse (plural Twitpocalypses)

1. (humorous) A massive outage or bug affecting Twitter.
   • 2009 June 12, M. G. Siegler, “Twitter Moves Up The Twitpocalypse. All Hell May Break Loose Today.”, in TechCrunch‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2023 February 9, Simon Sharwood, “The Twitpocalypse may have begun today”, in The Register‎^[2]:

     The Twitpocalypse may have begun today [title]