HotForWords » Twitterati http://hotforwords.com Marina Orlova - Not your typical philologist. Etymology, philology, word origins, origin of, hot teacher. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:55:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Nerd Word of the Day: Twitterati http://hotforwords.com/2009/03/02/nerd-word-of-the-day-twitterati/ http://hotforwords.com/2009/03/02/nerd-word-of-the-day-twitterati/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:49:11 +0000 HotForWords http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=3050 twitt-er-atiToday’s Nerd Word of the Day is:  Twitterati

The Twitterati are the Twitter elite, who have tens of thousands of followers on Twitter.

My favorite member of the Twitterati is currently: shaq_avatar_biggerjpgTHE_REAL_SHAQ at 211,661 followers.

He is HILARIOUS, in that, oftentimes, he’ll be eating in a restaurant somewhere, and he’ll twitter, that the first twitterer (a real word, by the way) to come up to him will get 2 free tickets to the game!

gorby-and-me_biggerjpgThat, alone, is one of the most creative uses of Twitter! I commend him for that!

Yours truly has a LONG way to go before ever becoming a member of the Twitterati :-)

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