Definition of "netizen"

Do we have to learn a new kind of language — ‘Netspeak’, as I shall call it — in order to be a netizen?

2001, David Crystal, “A linguistic perspective”, in Language and the Internet‎, Cambridge: The Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, published 2002, page 17

It appeared by Wednesday evening that Congress would follow Bank of America, Netflix and Verizon as the latest institution to change course in the face of a netizen revolt.

2012 January 19, Johnathan Weisman, “Web Rises Up To Deflect Bills Seen as Threat”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 19 January 2012, page A1

A $25,000 (£19,000) prize pool was established to reward the best solutions, and the competition was hosted on Kaggle – a Google-owned platform used by more than a million netizens to build AI models, find and share datasets, and collaborate with fellow Kagglers.

2020 January 21, Katyanna Quach, “How a Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25,000 AI contest with hidden code – and was fired from dream SV job”, in The Register‎, archived from the original on 23 January 2020

The use of the term "West Taiwan" (西台灣) to mock China has steadily grown in popularity since January 2020 when President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said that Beijing needs to face the reality that Taiwan is already an independent country. At the time, netizens conjured terms such as "Mainland Taiwan," "Taiwanese Beijing," and "West Taiwan" to agitate Chinese nationalists, censors, and trolls.

2021 December 9, Keoni Everington, “German video game ad labels China 'West Taiwan'”, in Taiwan News‎, archived from the original on 09 December 2021‎