Twatching — the act of experiencing an ongoing
television show or event via live twitter monitoring, while avoiding the actual show or event.
People often engage in twatching when viewing a televised event — an award show, a debate, a congressional hearing, a sporting event or breaking news, for example — is too
boring, irritating, upsetting or excruciating to watch live, so they choose, instead, to experience it in real time by following the hashtags and live tweeting of others.
Some people swear that twatching is often a
better experience than watching.
“No, I’m not going to watch the Academy Awards, because when they’re not
boring me with their
cheesy numbers, they’re pissing me off with their criminally idiotic
Oscar choices. But I’ll be twatching every minute, from the red carpet on.”