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twitterati

twitterati is the alternative form of Twitterati.

Noun capitalized: Twitterati

Twitterati pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only) People, particularly avid or frequent users, who use the microblogging service Twitter.
    • 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

Origin of twitterati

Blend of Twitter + literati.

Questions about twitterati

What does twitterati mean?
Twitterati means people, particularly avid or frequent users, who use the microblogging service Twitter.
What is twitterati the alternative form of?
Twitterati is the alternative form of Twitterati.
What part of speech is twitterati?
Twitterati is a noun.

Words near twitterati in the dictionary

  1. Twitter novels
  2. twitter-bone
  3. twitter-boned
  4. twitter-bones
  5. twitterable
  6. twitterati
  7. twitteration
  8. twitterations
  9. Twitterature
  10. Twitterbot
  11. Twitterbots

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Adapted from Wiktionary: twitterati (page history and authors); Twitterati (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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