Twitter Jail

Twitter Jail

Term used to describe the account suspension of overly loquacious Twitterers.

Commenting on Twitter’s horde of “twilebrities” (those who have gained notoriety though tweeting), Vanessa Grigoriadis noted in Vanity Fair:

Even Twitter has started to put the brakes on the culture of twilebrityby suspending the accounts of those who Twitter too excessively (more than 1,000 tweets per day) – a punishment commonly known as going toTwitter Jail.