What Is A Subtweet?

In Twitter parlance, subtweeting is the act of tweeting about a person without including his or her Twitter handle. It's the online version of talking behind someone's back. But if you include someone's name in a tweet, but not their Twitter handle, is it still subtweeting? Or do we need a different word for that (to the extent that weneed words for any of these actions)? Does it matter if the person being subtweeted (the subtweetee?) is famous, or has a popular online presence? Does it matter if the person follows you?

There's also the question of whether subtweeting is immoral, or wrong, or somehow makes you a bad person. Does subtweeting bother people because it is truly mean, or because it intentionally breaks down the @-tagging, conversational framework that Twitter is built on, whereby you're very much able to track everything people are saying about you?

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