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.
@starkatt Though it /did/ happen on here recently /about/ birdsite. But yeah, not quite as often. :-)
@starkatt social media wavefunction collapse: when two posts by different people appear to be unrelated to each other until you actually read about the thing they're about, after which you become aware