Twitterati
See also: twitterati
English
Etymology
Blend of twitter + literati
Noun
Twitterati pl (plural only)
- (informal) People, particularly avid or frequent users, who use the microblogging service Twitter.
- 2008 September 3, Sarah Lai Stirland, “Sarah Palin's Campaign Debut Electrifies the GOP, Galvanizes The Twitterati”, in Wired:
- For amusing one-liners, news, and water-cooler chatter about Palin from the Twitterati, please keep checking in on our "McCain VP Watch" Twitter widget on our blog to the right.
- 2009 June 8, Elina Shatkin, “Taco Zone truck attacked in Echo Park, as told by Twitter”, in Los Angeles Times:
- Fire-starters weren’t the only ones at work that night. The Twitterati were also in full force.
- 2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times:
- Sitting in the courtroom […] , their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times — the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.
- 2018 July 14, Sarah Mervosh, “Trump Walks in Front of Queen Elizabeth, Causing Social Media Frenzy”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- Queen Elizabeth II may not have been amused, but the Twitterati certainly were.
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