Observations July 29, 2014 - Tweep
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 3:07 pm
You ignore new technology at your peril, Adlai Stevenson thinking television was a fad, for example, but I am confident that SteelersFan and I will never become tweeps.
tweep (NEW WORD ADDED for 2014)Audio Pronunciation\TWEEP\
DEFINITION
noun: a person who uses the Twitter online message service to send and receive tweets
EXAMPLES
"Rapper Snoop Dogg changed his name to Snoop Lion. Know how I found out? My tweeps told me." — Marc Munroe Dion, The Messenger (Madisonville, Kentucky), August 12, 2012
"More than two million people tweeted their elation and frustration during the game between Australia and Chile yesterday. A whopping 2,223,143 tweets were posted on Twitter as tweeps used the hashtag #CHIAUS during the 90-minute match." — The Advertiser (Australia), June 15, 2014