Twitterati

Blend of twitter +‎ literati

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:

     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:

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