live-tweet

verb

Etymology

From live + tweet.

  1. derived from Twiete
  2. derived from Tveit
  3. compounded as live-tweet — “live + tweet

Definitions

  1. To provide real-time updates or commentary on an event in progress through Twitter posts.

    • Or maybe, like Stern, you can live-tweet comments about a television show as it is broadcast.
    • Realizing the need he had discovered—no record of the General Assembly's proceedings had to that point existed on Twitter—he returned the next night to live-tweet the whole event.
    • We weren't planning to live-tweet the birth, but we felt in that moment that we needed the power of prayer.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for live-tweet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA