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.”
