Citations:Weird Twitter

English citations of Weird Twitter

Proper noun: "(Internet) a community of Twitter accounts dedicated to satirical, absurdist, or subversive humor" edit

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  • 2012, Kevin O'Toole & Nathaniel Edwards, "Abandon All Hope...", North by Northwestern, Fall 2012, page 51:
    You may not be paid, but you've got major cred with Weird Twitter, so enjoy it while it lasts, @pizzahut.
  • 2013, Zachary Zahos, "The Filthy, Brilliant Back Alleys of Twitter", The Cornell Daily Sun (Cornell University), 16 October 2013, page 16:
    But while the tweets may look similarly 'broken,' it must be emphasized that "Weird Twitter" is a simple label for a very diverse pool of comedy.
  • 2013, Samantha Bares, "We should appreciate 'Weird Twitter'", The Daily Reveille (Louisiana State University), 12 November 2013, page 9:
    Since being discovered, Weird Twitter has been poked, prodded, analyzed and made merciless fun of.
  • 2014, Andrew Fifield, "Clickbait", Metro (Edmonton), 17 March 2014, page 14:
    From lengthy treatises on punk music to a spotlight on the joke factories that make up "Weird Twitter," Jake Fogelnest has his finger on many pulses.
  • 2015, Daniel Konikoff, "140 characters of comic gold", Varsity (The University of Toronto), 22 March 2015, page 18:
    Oftentimes, the funniest tweets emerge from the peculiar depths of "Weird Twitter," a subculture so twistedly surreal that it could curl Salvador Dali's moustache.
  • 2017, Sam Rosenberg, "The Wonderfully Weird World of 'Weird Twitter'", The Michigan Daily (The University of Michigan), 19 January 2017, page 2B:
    On the contrary, Weird Twitter offers a creative, comedic space for some of the internet's most sarcastic, anti-intellectual and angsty voices.
  • 2017, Ryan Smith, "Socialism's New Boom", Chicago Reader, 24 August 2017, page 15:
    The stars of Weird Twitter and Left Twitter, amorphous but overlapping subcultures, have become known for posting absurd, subversive, and incisive non sequiturs.