Twibel
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[edit]Twibel (uncountable)
- (informal, neologism) libel in the form of postings on the Twitter microblogging service
- 2013, Robert Trager, Joseph Russomanno, Susan Dente Ross, The Law of Journalism and Mass Communication, page 154:
- The most notorious Twitter libel case, sometimes called Twibel cases, involved rocker Courtney Love.
- 2015, Serap Kurbanoglu, Sonja Spiranec, Esther Grassian, Information Literacy, page 105:
- Twitter, for example, has a structure (maximum 140 characters) that encourage[sic] such [quick, thoughtless] statements, leading to “twibel” actions.