tricoteuse

plural tricoteuses

1. A woman who knits; used especially of those who knitted at meetings and at executions during the French Revolution.

   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