New York Times Schott’s Vocab on TwitterDead
TwitterDead
Celebrities whose deaths have been erroneously reported in cyberspace.
July 14, 2009, 4:36 am
 “Viruses may spread quickly on the Internet, but hoaxes can be pretty contagious, too,” Monica Corcoran wrote recently in The Times:
In the same week that Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died, the Web became a hotbed of made-up death reports about various celebrities.
Jeff Goldblum was the first to go. A headline on Google News read, “Jeff Goldblum Has Died, Falls to Death on Set!” Details were murky, but just specific enough to sound plausible. The story went that Mr. Goldblum, 56, had plummeted off the 60-foot Kauri Cliffs in New Zealand while filming a movie.
What started out as a prank soon took on a life of its own. Twitter users retweeted the item, and the community became an echo chamber. Facebook members chimed in.
By the week’s end, the celebrity death toll had turned into a conga line.
Other “late” celebrities included: George Clooney, Miley Cyrus, Harrison Ford, Natalie Portman, Randy Jackson and Britney Spears.
According to Corcoran, blogger Emily Miller coined the term TwitterDead to describe the cyber-deceased. Writing for Politics Daily, Miller explained:
TwitterDead is defined as someone who is said to have died in a tweet, which is retweeted so often that it trends in Twitter so others believe the celebrity is Really Dead.
(For the uninitiated, a tweet is a post made on the micro-blogging site Twitter; a retweet is the reposting of an earlier post; and a Twitter trend is a popular discussion topic.)
Corcoran attributed the plausibility of Twitter reports to the fact that the site has, on occasion, functioned as a credible news source. Citing the use of Twitter in communicating news of the Mumbai shootings and Iran’s post-election violence, Corcoran argued: “That type of citizen journalism helped legitimize Twitter as a place people turn for the freshest developments.”
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