Definitions

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  • noun informal People who use the microblogging service Twitter

Etymologies

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Blend of twitter and literati

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Examples

  • Twitter works great for the "twitterati," but in many ways it has failed to penetrate the mainstream web.

    Top Tech News 2010

  • Twitter works great for the "twitterati," but in many ways it has failed to penetrate the mainstream web.

    Top Tech News 2010

  • Twitter works great for the "twitterati," but in many ways it has failed to penetrate the mainstream web.

    Top Tech News 2010

  • Twitter works great for the "twitterati," but in many ways it has failed to penetrate the mainstream web.

    Top Tech News 2010

  • I've been on for a few weeks now and have just found it nearly impossible to break into what is, despite superficial appearances, quite self-contained to a group of "twitterati"

    Muti 2009

  • By lunchtime Thursday I had published a bunch of qik videos and pix from #cebit and met many of Sydney's finest 'twitterati'.

    Learning with the Fang 2009

  • I will deal with the matter offline … #savetheintern was the reaction of the twitterati.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2012

  • With its timely, tongue-in-cheek reference to the baying twitterati, the new track fizzes with the fresh energy one can always expect from accomplished live musicians who are clearly having fun on their first record in 20 years.

    Cedric Perrier: Back To The Future: "The Time" Reunites for New Album as "The Original 7ven" Cedric Perrier 2011

  • You may even be sick of twitterati: Bloggers, facebook-ers, and Web 2. 0-ers, all tweeting.

    06 « April « 2009 « California Life: Better Than Happy Hour 2009

  • By NowhereBob, January 5, 2010 @ 8: 38 pm well done sir photo? or is that only for the twitterati? the

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Huzzah! 2010

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  • Ah yes, the twits who think they are the literati.

    September 20, 2007

  • Or does this refer to Twitter aficionados?

    September 20, 2007

  • To paraphrase Twain, "But wait, you repeated what I said".

    September 20, 2007