Thesaurus: twitchfork
The use of Twitter as a tool for social protest. A blend of Twitter and pitchforks, the latter once being weapons of choice, along with torches, of angry mobs storming the barricades. Today, protesters reach for laptops …
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- The use of Twitter as a tool for social protest. A blend of Twitter and pitchforks, the latter once being weapons of choice, along with torches, of angry mobs storming the barricades. Today, protesters reach for laptops and mobile devices. > "A virtual mob picked up their twitchforks to protest Facebook's new terms of service."