tweetaholic

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English

Etymology

tweet (an entry posted on Twitter) +‎ -aholic

Pronunciation

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Noun

tweetaholic (plural tweetaholics)

  1. (slang) A heavy user of the Twitter microblogging service; a person addicted to tweeting.
    • 2011, John Mayer, quoted in Rena Bivens, Digital Currents: How Technology and the Public are Shaping TV News, University of Toronto Press (2014), →ISBN, page 17:
      You're coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song is still four minutes long ... I realized about a year ago that I couldn't have a complete though anymore. And I was a tweetaholic.
    • 2012, Scott Stretten, chapter 16, in UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging, Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 58:
      I know, not everyone is a tweetaholic like me, and not everyone can devote a good chunk of their day to Twitter.
    • 2012, Anne Raso, One Direction, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 65:
      The whole group admits to being tweetaholics, but Louis says that he is the one who is following the most 1D fans.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tweetaholic.