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, 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, 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.
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, 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 […]