Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

twitterati

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.77 in modern English

Syllables: twit-terati
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Informal

noun

Alternative form of Twitterati.

Example Sentences

"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."
"Fire-starters weren’t the only ones at work that night. The Twitterati were also in full force."
"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."
"Queen Elizabeth II may not have been amused, but the Twitterati certainly were."
"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."

Etymology

Blend of Twitter + literati.

Usage

Informal

Questions

What does twitterati mean?: People, particularly avid or frequent users, who use the microblogging service Twitter.
Where does twitterati come from?: Blend of Twitter + literati.

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