/ˈtwiːt/, /ˈtwit/
OriginOnomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).
- 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.”
- 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 […]”
- broadlyAn 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.”
- alt-ofAlternative 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 lengt”
“Julia Thompson will be sending out news Tweets ([…]) and I’ll be keeping you updated with cool calendar Tweets ([…]).”
“Twitter, if you’re not familiar with it, is a form of micro-blogging, which allows users to send very short updates on what they’re doing to anyone interested to receive them and last week several “Tw”
- intransitiveTo 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.”
- ambitransitiveTo 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-co”
- ambitransitive, broadlyTo 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.””
- alt-ofAlternative 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.”
“His comment galvanized fiscally conservative Democrats to support the president’s bill and heightened the sense of despondency among those Republican congressmen and senators who BBMed and Tweeted on ”
“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.”
- used to represent the sound of a bird twittering: twit.
“I've got two loves / And they go tweet (×9) like little birds”
Formstweets(plural) · tweets(present, singular, third-person) · tweeting(participle, present) · tweeted(past) · twote(Internet, nonstandard, past) · tweeted(participle, past) · twote(Internet, nonstandard, participle, past) · twoten(Internet, nonstandard, participle, past) · Tweets(plural) · Tweets(present, singular, third-person) · Tweeting(participle, present) · Tweeted(participle, past) · Tweeted(past)