tweeps

American  

[tweeps] / twips /

Sometimes tweepz

plural noun

Slang.

SINGULAR

tweep

1. a person's followers on Twitter, a social media website.

2. people who use Twitter.

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Etymology

Origin of tweeps

2007; blend of tweet (in the sense of “a message posted on Twitter”) or Twitter ( def. ) + peeps ( def. )

Example Sentences

“Tweeps” became the moniker for Twitter employees.

From New York Times

Thank you tweeps End of 7 years at Twitter! @elonmusk for learnings and energy in last 3 months to improve Twitter & Ads!

From Washington Times

Nuñez, who was a senior software engineer, added: “I came forward to help myself and my former tweeps” — or Twitter employees — “receive our severance that was outlined in the agreement, which has since changed.”

From Los Angeles Times

What might happen instead, as some former tweeps and digital observers have opined, is that continual bugs and glitches will pile up without sufficient task forces on hand to fix them.

From Slate

If Twitter pretends that the payment dispensed during the non-working period is, in fact, severance pay, “we are preparing a potential class action with affected Tweeps,” also known as Twitter employees.

From Los Angeles Times