Twitterati

See also: twitterati

English

Etymology

Blend of Twitter +‎ literati.

Noun

Twitterati pl (plural only)

1. (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^[1]:

     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^[2]:

     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^[3]:

     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^[4], →ISSN:

     Queen Elizabeth II may not have been amused, but the Twitterati certainly were.