What an individual becomes afflicted with through excessive participation in the culture of Twitch chat, causing a compulsion of using twitch emotes in verbal conversation, often to an annoying degree. The person may start using these as a replacement for emotional expression or punctuation in their everyday speech, the rest of their speech becoming bland and monotone.
Person 1: Man, Joey's been saying Poggers or KEKW after every other sentence, I'm getting worried about him.
Person 2: Sounds like he's got a case of the Twitches.
Someone with nothing better to do than to spy on their neighbours for signs of petty wrongdoing. A derogatory term for members of the neighbourhood watch and other such organisations.
The term refers to the only sign of their presence - curtains twitching in suburban dwellings as they peek out at whatever might be going on outside.
Has absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality, except where homosexuality is illegal and thus something else for the curtain-twitchers to report to the authorities.
"Letting the deranged curtain twitcher at Snout’s Cottage gather “intelligence” about her neighbours reminds me of East Germany before the Wall came down."