Twiplomacy

English

Etymology

Blend of Twitter +‎ diplomacy.

Noun

Twiplomacy (uncountable)

1. The practice of conducting public diplomacy using the social media platform Twitter.
   • 2013, Daryl Copeland, “Digital Technology”, in Andrew F[enton] Cooper, Jorge Heine, Ramesh Thakur, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part IV (Tools and Instruments), section 5 (Leadership and Best Practices), page 457:

     After a very slow start, the US State Department is now the world’s most active practitioner of e-PD and the source of many best practices in digital diplomacy. It operates an official blog called DipNote, and actively services Twitter accounts in Arabic, Farsi, Russian, Spanish, Hindi, and French, as well as English. This new business line—‘Twiplomacy’ in the increasingly popular idiom—is growing fast, with more and more U.S. diplomatic missions and practitioners joining the fray.

   • 2015, Anne Aly, “The Media and International Relations”, in Emilian Kavalski, editor, Encounters with World Affairs: An Introduction to International Relations, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2016, →ISBN, part III (Topics and Issues), page 355:

     One study on the use of Twiplomacy found 264 Twitter accounts for government institutions in 125 countries but that only 30 heads of state personally used their Twitter accounts.

   • 2022, Varuna Mattis Venker, “Introduction”, in Russian Twiplomacy in the Russia-Ukraine War. Frames and Narratives as Strategic Communication, GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, page 2:

     This bachelor thesis documents the analysis of Russia's Twiplomacy in the Russia-Ukraine war concerning the framing approach. For this purpose, the posts of a selection of seven Russian government profiles on Twitter are examined over a period of five months. Examining Russian Twiplomacy provides a deeper understanding of its function.

   • 2022 December, Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat, “China’s Growing ‘Twiplomacy’ in Indonesia”, in The Political Economy of China-Indonesia Relations in 2022, Jakarta Selatan: Institute For Development of Economics and Finance, →ISBN, page 47:

     The government in Beijing seems to acknowledge that the use of Twiplomacy has never been more important than today with its growing roles in Indonesia.

Further reading

• Twitter diplomacy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia