screenshort

English

Etymology

Blend of screen(shot) +‎ short.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

screenshort (plural screenshorts)

1. (social media, rare) A screenshot of text posted to social media.
   • 2014 December 19, Mat Honan, “The Rise Of The Screenshort™”, in BuzzFeed News‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-05-30:

     Kind of counterintuitively, Screenshorts demonstrate why the 140 character limit is vital. If people began posting massive chunks of text to Twitter, it would no longer be easy to scan. But the Screenshort, working side-by-side with in-line image previews, works perfectly. Click to enlarge and all that.

   • 2016 January 5, Klint Finley, “Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Hints Its 140 Character Limit Could End”, in Wired‎^[2], San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-10:

     We've heard such rumors before, but this one just got a lot more plausible thanks to a cryptic screenshort from Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey.

   • 2016 April 12, Casey Newton, “You can now share quoted text directly to Facebook”, in The Verge‎^[3], archived from the original on 2023-03-23:

     No more screenshorts