Weird Twitter

English

Proper noun

Weird Twitter

1. (Internet) A community of Twitter accounts dedicated to satirical, absurdist, or subversive humor.
   • 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 November 12, Samantha Bares, “We should appreciate 'Weird Twitter'”, in The Daily Reveille, Louisiana State University, page 9:

     Since being discovered, Weird Twitter has been poked, prodded, analyzed and made merciless fun of.

   • 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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Weird Twitter.