twitterati

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noun

People, particularly avid or frequent users, who use the microblogging service Twitter.

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Meanings

twitterati1

nountwitterati pl (plural only)
  1. alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of Twitterati.

    After all, it gives them - and twitterati in general - recurrent opportunity to troll the CM for being able to find the time to watch scores of films despite being a full-time politician.

    2016 June 23, “Kejreview: He came, he watched, he tweeted”, in The Times of India

Twitterati2

nounTwitterati pl (plural only)
  1. informalpluralplural onlyPeople, particularly avid or frequent users, who use the microblogging service Twitter.

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

    2018 July 14, Sarah Mervosh, “Trump Walks in Front of Queen Elizabeth, Causing Social Media Frenzy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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    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.

    2008 September 3, Sarah Lai Stirland, “Sarah Palin's Campaign Debut Electrifies the GOP, Galvanizes The Twitterati”, in Wired

    Fire-starters weren’t the only ones at work that night. The Twitterati were also in full force.

    2009 June 8, Elina Shatkin, “Taco Zone truck attacked in Echo Park, as told by Twitter”, in Los Angeles 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.

    2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times

Origin

Blend of Twitter + literati.

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APA

twitterati. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twitterati

MLA

“twitterati.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twitterati. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “twitterati,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twitterati.

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