Stan Twitter

Stan Twitter

English

Proper noun

Stan Twitter

1. (Internet) A community of fans on Twitter, centering around shared interest in celebrities, TV shows, movies, and social media.
   • 2017, "Fall semester smashes", The Spectrum (University at Buffalo), 18 September 2017, page 6:

     Stan Twitter and fans of Tinashe's pop agenda have been craving the release, thanks to lead 2016 single "Superlove."

   • 2020, "Grace", quoted in Hannah Ewens, Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture, page 170:

     Stan Twitter has kept going even when 1D [One Direction] didn't.

   • 2020, Dylan Yono, "Twitter stans and superfans", The Michigan Daily (The University of Michigan), 7 October 2020, page 11:

     Even if she only gets to see her friends from Stan Twitter at concerts, their friendship is genuine.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Stan Twitter.