tweet

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The sound of a bird

   The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.

   • [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.
2. 2

   An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.

   • Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.
   • For example, as you edit a tweet in Twitter, the number of characters left is updated as you type.
   • A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone […]
3. 3

   An entry on any microblogging service.

   • He was watching the media coverage, talking to his lawyers. And we saw that because of his tweets on Truth Social, or his posts on Truth Social.
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   1. 4

      To produce a short high-pitched sound, similar to that of certain birds.

      • [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.
   2. 5

      To post an entry to Twitter.

      • In Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative societies, one online rebel has rocked the Islamic establishment with tweeted allegations of corruption within the ruling royal family.
      • =Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"
      • First, an apology. Tweet in haste and repent at leisure. When I first heard about the idea, before I had properly examined it, I actually tweeted that this was [a] welcome 'innovation' from a state-controlled train operator.
   3. 6

      To post an entry to any microblogging site.

      • In response to the motion, Trump tweeted on Truth Social
      • As Georgetown public policy prof Dan Moynihan tweeted on Bluesky yesterday, the editors of the Times “are not falling for [Rufo’s] game, they are co-producing it.”
   4. 7

      used to represent the sound of a bird twittering

      used to represent the sound of a bird twittering: twit.

      • I've got two loves / And they go tweet (×9) like little birds
   5. 8

      A surname.

   6. 9

      Alternative letter-case form of tweet (“Twitter post”).

      • Twitter allows users, called Twitterers, to stay constantly connected with friends and family by sending and receiving messages short messages called Tweets.[…]Write a short story in the maximum length of a Tweet.
      • Julia Thompson will be sending out news Tweets ([…]) and I’ll be keeping you updated with cool calendar Tweets ([…]).
   7. 10

      Alternative letter-case form of tweet (“to post on Twitter”).

      • Girls want pictures with him; guys dress like him for Halloween; more than 500 people “Tweet” his whereabouts on the social networking Web site.
      • He [Brandon Marshall] also Tweeted that he would earmark $1 million to mental-health research, which is significant to Marshall, having been diagnosed in 2012 with borderline-personality disorder.

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