Is there a word to describe a Twitter user who follows everyone in an attempt to get them to follow him? Now, I’m getting a regular stream of them. When you look at their profiles, they have hundreds of followers. It’s just not possible or practical to read that many tweets every day. Obviously they are not reading anything; they just want you to read their tweets. It’s a marketing ploy.
Word for Twitter Whores?
June 15th, 2009 by dyske
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I think you’ve answered your own question. The people you’re describing are, in fact, twitter whores.
How about Twitter Twats? Or Twatters?
@EGKG
You are right. I see that someone has already coined the term “Twitter whore” on Urban Dictionary, and the definition is exactly what I described.
Twatters. That made me laugh out loud.
I think the word is “bots,” since the majority of accounts of this nature are controlled programatically via the Twitter API.
Twitter whores.
Please leave it at that, I’m already disgruntled by the fact that words such as “Google” and “Riffage” have made it into traditional dictionaries, they don’t need to be filled out with any more uselessly coined internet terminology, especially ones that you have no need for.
I was going to say that something simple like “twats” would do fine, but I think Frank Luo’s “twatters” would hold up much better out of context.
Dr. Mc, you’re kidding! You don’t find it cumbersome to say, “I searched up twatters on Google,” instead of a much simpler, “I googled twatters”?