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tweeps

American

[tweeps] / twips /

Sometimes tweepz

plural noun

Slang.

singular

tweep

a person's followers on Twitter, a social media website.
people who use Twitter.

Etymology

Origin of tweeps

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

Example Sentences

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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 • Feb. 22, 2023

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 • Nov. 19, 2022

"I didn't want to work for someone who threatened us over email multiple times about only 'exceptional tweeps should work here' when I was already working 60-70 hours weekly," they said.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2022

Twitter colleagues often refer to each other as "tweeps."

From Reuters • Nov. 4, 2022

Coverage of his mercurial 140-character messages has only multiplied since, lending Grassley semi-cult status among politically oriented tweeps.

From US News • Jan. 28, 2015

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