snitch tagging

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snitch tagging is a special case of explicitly person-mentioning someone in a reply to or quotation of a post which mentions (usually critically) that same someone more obliquely (like plain text or a nickname) as a way of notifying that person of the critique, either as a heads-up, or perhaps in agreement with the critique.

See Also

• 2018-06-05 Mashable: Snitch tagging is ruining the internet. Stop it.
• https://twitter.com/BootstrapCook/status/1016413720598269956?s=19
  • "nobody likes a snitch tagger babe" @BootstrapCook July 9, 2018
• person mention
• subtweet
• https://twitter.com/audreywatters/status/1203166621965017090
  • "Blessed are those who do not snitch tag" @audreywatters December 7, 2019
• https://twitter.com/JennBinis/status/1204087169188536320
  • "I am seriously considering holding all of EduTwitter late for detention and giving a lecture on Twitter etiquette. Highlights will include:
    * Snitchtagging - just don't
    * @ replies are different than a timeline
    * 9 people are tweeted that at them. Why do you want be 10th?" @JennBinis December 9, 2019