tweet

• (Twitter post): Tweet

Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).[1]

• IPA^(key): /twiːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt

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tweet (plural tweets)

1. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
   • 1934 April 7, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 104:

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

2. (social media) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter. [since 2007]
   • 2007 April 22, Jason Pontin, “Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme”, in International Herald-Tribune‎:

     Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.

   • 2008, Wendy Chisholm, Matthew May, Universal Design for Web Applications:

     For example, as you edit a tweet in Twitter, the number of characters left is updated as you type.

   • 2008, Chris Seibold, Big Book of Apple Hacks:

     A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone […]

3. (social media, by extension) An entry on any microblogging service.
   • 2023 August 3, Kristen Holmes, The Lead with Jake Tapper‎, CNN:

     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.

tweet (third-person singular simple present tweets, present participle tweeting, simple past tweeted or (Internet, rare, humorous) twote, past participle tweeted or (Internet, rare, humorous) twoten)

1. (intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
   • 1934 April 7, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 104:

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

2. (transitive, intransitive, social media) To post an update to Twitter. [since 2007]
   • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian‎:

     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.

   • 2017 January 25, “Donald Trump: 'We will build Mexico border wall'”, in BBC World Service‎, retrieved 2017-01-25:

     Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"

   • 2024 February 7, Christian Wolmar, “LNER's crazy idea will price more people off the railway”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 44:

     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. (transitive, intransitive, social media, by extension) To post an update to any microblogging site.
   • 2023 September 17, Lou Kettering, “Federal prosecutors in DC 2020 election interference case request order to prohibit Trump making ‘inflammatory’ and ‘misleading’ statements”, in Jurist‎:

     In response to the motion, Trump tweeted on Truth Social

   • 2024 April 17, Doktor Zoom, “New York Times Joins Chris Rufo In Mean Girls Finger-Snapping At NPR CEO”, in Wonkette‎:

     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.”

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• live-tweet
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• subtweet
• tweetup
• tweeter

tweet

1. Used to represent the sound of a bird twittering: twit.
   • 1977, David Byrne (lyrics and music), “Love → Building On Fire”, in Talking Heads: 77, performed by Talking Heads:

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

• twitter
• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

• tweet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “'Tweet' 2009 Word of the Year, 'Google' Word of the Decade, as voted by American Dialect Society”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, American Dialect Society, 2010 January 8

Borrowed from English tweet.

tweet m (plural tweets)

1. tweet

   Synonyms: piulada, tuit

Borrowed from English tweet.

tweet

1. tweet (Twitter)
   • 2014, Caspar Eric, 7 / 11, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:

     ... og at du lyver i dine tweets / ... / jeg skriver et tweet med våde fingre / ... / og der er 7 personer der citerer tweeten ...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2015, Anna Erelle, Forklædt som jihad-brud, Art People, →ISBN:

     David Thomsons kontakter synes, hans historie er for tyk, og han har trukket tweetet tilbage.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

tweet

1. imperative of tweete

Borrowed from English tweet

• IPA^(key): /tʋit/

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tweet m (plural tweets, diminutive tweetje n)

1. tweet (Twitter message)

• IPA^(key): /twit/

tweet m (plural tweets)

1. a tweet (a message on Twitter)

   Synonym: twit

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

• IPA^(key): /twit/
• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: tweet

tweet m inan

1. (Internet) tweet (entry posted on Twitter)

• tweet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tweet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• tuíte

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

tweet m (plural tweets)

1. (Internet) tweet (entry posted on Twitter)

tweet m (plural tweets)

1. tweet

Borrowed from English tweet.

tweet c

1. tweet (message on Twitter)

• tweeta
• twittra

• tweet in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• twit

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

tweet (definite accusative tweeti, plural tweetler)

1. (Internet) tweet (entry posted on Twitter)