Twitgrief

Condensed expressions of grief posted on Twitter.

Commenting on the recent deaths of Casey Johnson and Brittany Murphy, The London Evening Standard’s Laura Craik declared:

2010 looks set to be the year of Twitgrief, a horrible phenomenon that sees friends and relatives of the deceased expressing the depths of their sadness in fewer than 140 characters. Both Johnson and Murphy’s partners took to Twitter and/or Facebook in the hours after their deaths, as did hundreds of their friends and acquaintances.

See also: Obitutainment