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Twitpocalypse

noun

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.

  1. derived from ἀποκάλυψις
  2. derived from apocalypsis
  3. inherited from apocalips
  4. compounded as twitpocalypse — “Twitter + apocalypse”

Definitions

  1. A massive outage or bug affecting Twitter.

    • 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.
    • The Twitpocalypse may have begun today [title]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Twitpocalypse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA