Citations:Twitterstorm

Noun: "a flurry of increased activity on Twitter, especially over a controversy or popular event"

 * 2010, Rick Mathieson, The On-Demand Brand: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World, AMACOM (2010), ISBN 9780814415726, page 79:
 * Witness the “Twitterstorm” Domino's faced when a video surfaced of one franchisee's employees adding, shall we say, extra ingredients to its pizzas.
 * 2012, Simon Mills, "Our name is Brio! Duran Duran laugh off the Twitter cynics' ageist Olympic insults", Daily Mail, 6 May 2012:
 * I explain to Rhodes something of the ‘Twitterstorm’ that broke as soon as the line-up for the BT London Live concert on July 27 was released.
 * 2013, Tom Maddocks, The M Factor: Media Confidence for Business Leaders and Managers, Anoma Press (2013), ISBN 9781908746726, page 138:
 * The fact the 'Twitterstorm' had occurred was followed up, and had almost become the story itself.
 * 2013, Bill McKibbon, Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist, Times Books (2013), ISBN 9780805092844, page 154:
 * It wasn't entirely bad; it allowed me to get online to help with the Twitterstorm we were organizing to draw attention to fossil fuel subsidies as world leaders arrived in Rio for an environmental summit.
 * 2013, "Eurovision is marching to the beat of a different drum", Belfast Telegraph, 17 May 2013:
 * There was an almost-instant Twitterstorm. The entire British Eurovision audience went completely berserk.
 * 2013, Emma Cowing, "Offering pregnant woman a seat is polite", The Scotsman, 19 October 2013:
 * Then they stand for 18 minutes, go back to the office, and find themselves the subject of an almighty Twitterstorm which demands to know why they weren’t given a seat – a move they then brand as sexist.
 * 2014, Tony Harcup, A Dictionary of Journalism, Oxford University Press (2014), ISBN 9780199646241, page 307:
 * The case is often highlighted as an example of how one *tweet (in this instance by the Guardian editor) can rapidly lead to a Twitterstorm that draws ever more public attention to whatever it is that somebody wishes to be kept secret
 * 2014, Lauren Bravo, "A few more options and fewer pressures…", Shoreham Herald, 8 June 2014:
 * I have just come in, out of the storm – the ‘Twitterstorm’, that is, which has been raging.