bloggerati

plural noun

blog·​ge·​ra·​ti ˌblȯ-gə-ˈrä-(ˌ)tē How to pronounce bloggerati (audio)
ˌblä-
: people who write blogs : bloggers as a group
What began as the ultimate outsider activity … is turning into the same insider's game played by the old establishment media the bloggerati love to critique.Jennifer Howard, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2003
Online social networks have proliferated since the beginning of the twenty-first century, with the players shifting as each moves in and out of favor with the bloggeratiEric Freedman, Transient Images, 2010
Less than a day later Seed shut the blog … . That's how easy it is for the bloggerati to hound out undesirable opinions.David Appell, Guardian Unlimited, 20 July 2010

Word History

Etymology

blend of blog entry 1 and literati

First Known Use

2003, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bloggerati was in 2003

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“Bloggerati.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloggerati. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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