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The practice of posting a real-time stream of tweets reacting to an event as it unfolds, whether a TV show, sports game, awards ceremony, or breaking news.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The whole timeline was live-tweeting the finale in real time."
LORE & ORIGIN
Became standard Twitter practice by 2009-2010 as the platform's real-time nature made it a natural fit for narrating live events, eventually becoming an expected part of how major TV events are experienced online.
FIRST SEEN
2009
PEAK POPULARITY
2026 (Living Interface Canon)
CURRENT STATUS
Legacy / Decaying Slang
Related To:Tweetstorm
EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES
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+1 AURA
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2009
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