Social media interferometry: taking vague or oblique posts by two or more different connected people and using the wave pattern produced between them to try and figure out what probably just happened.

not a response to anything going on right now, just a cute phrase I came up with a while ago :)

Related phrase: social media backscatter, when everyone is talking *about* a breaking news item or post or something but nobody is actually referencing it directly. Happens more on bird site than on here, thankfully.

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@starkatt Though it /did/ happen on here recently /about/ birdsite. But yeah, not quite as often. :-)

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