I joined the herd last week and started using Twitter. Ever since, I’ve been trying to come up with a name for the people who use it. Like a gaggle of geese, or a lamentation of swans. Because that’s just something I do.

There are a lot of people on there, spouting off about one thing or another. Sometimes it’s mundane, sometimes it’s poetic. Mostly though it’s illustrative of the phenomenon that may or may not have a scientific name yet, but has to do with the desire to tell other people about yourself and the relative ease with which this is possible thanks to El Internet. It’s why webloggers talk about their cats, and vloggers videotape their cats.

Charles Hope posted a link to a collection of aphorisms by Werner Erhard the other day, and one of them stuck out at me:

“I know that you know that I love you. What I want you to know is that I know you love me.”

We want to show people how human we are, how much we can love.

Anyway, my first thoughts about what to call Twitter users were along the lines of a “Trivial of Twitterers” or a “Trifling of Twitterers“. But digging a little deeper under the froth of Twitter activity led me to something more like a “Transport of Twitterers” or a “Thrive of Twitterers” or maybe even an “Indemnification of Twitterers“.

More collective names on this page.

A group of Twitterers is called a _________?

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