Vaguebooking? Subtweeting? Supertweeting? Why can't we just say what we mean online?
Many neologisms have been coined to make sense of the sideways ways that we communicate on social media – but the tactics are as old as time
What’s the difference between vaguebooking and a humblebrag? Is “supertweeting” really a thing? Why can’t we just say what we mean on social media?
On Wednesday the communications director of the Republican senator Orrin Hatch tweeted an unremarkable photo of Hatch speaking to reporters. It being literally part of his job, the tweet might have passed without comment if not for the caption:
The reference to “aggressive recorder shoving” coincided with his fellow Republican to reports a Guardian US reporter, Ben Jacobs, and Twitter wasn’t talking about much else. Even if neither Gianforte nor Jacobs
