Americanized spelling of eitherNorwegianTveit or NorthGermanTwiete.
Tweet (pluralTweets)
- Asurname.
- According to the 2010 United States Census,Tweet is the 37229th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 599 individuals.Tweet is most common among White (92.49%) individuals.
Tweet (pluralTweets)
- Alternativeletter-case form oftweet(“Twitter post”)
2008 May 31, Jessica Guynn, “Contest inspires few words”, inLos Angeles Times,page C3:Twitter allows users, called Twitterers, to stay constantly connected with friends and family by sending and receiving messages short messages calledTweets.[…]Write a short story in the maximum length of aTweet.
2008 August 15, Lyssa Oberkreser, “Tweets have got her all a-Twitter”, inTallahassee Democrat, 103rd year, number228,page 3B:Julia Thompson will be sending out newsTweets ([…]) and I’ll be keeping you updated with cool calendarTweets ([…]).
2008 December 2, Tom Sutcliffe, “Twittering on is not the way to provide news”, inThe Independent, number6,906,page31: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 “Tweets” – as the Twitter postings are called – started appearing in the BBC’s coverage.[…]Given that several “Tweets” instructively contradicted the official line on what was happening you might argue that this enlistment of an army of virtual stringers improved the BBC’s coverage. But that argument wouldn’t take account of the subtle alteration of trust that takes place when you read coverage that cuts and pastes random “Tweets” alongside more conventional forms of BBC journalism.
2009 March 2, Kevin Pang, “@JimmyFallon wants you to follow him”, inChicago Tribune, 162nd year, number61, section 3,page 1:The 34-year-old Fallon has also become a prolific Twitterer (yes, it really is him sendingTweets from his iPhone).
2009 March 15, Corilyn Shropshire, “Twitter: When is it too much?”, inThe Marshall News Messenger, volume131, number287,page 2B:So it makes sense that just over a year and countlessTweets later, the pair tied the knot last week in a 15-hour extravaganza that was chock-full of spontaneousTweets not only by the bride and groom, but guests both in-person and on the Web.
2009 March 25, Jack Cowan, “Not falling for Twitter mania”, inSan Angelo Standard-Times,page A4:I don’t doubt the time- and hassle-saving example, but my guess is that for every one of those there are 999Tweets about going to the mall or going to see friends or going to see friends at the mall.[…]Twitterers join lists of people they want to follow (not my word, but I like it), and if they follow 15 people who send out fiveTweets each, that’s a lot of techno-sludge to wade through every day.[…]Most of the politicians who aren’t boring are offensive, and any journalist who can tell a story in 140 characters—that’s the maximumTweet length—isn’t writing about anything that interests me.
2009 April 6, Suzanne Condie Lambert, “Demi’s Tweets help save woman”, inThe Arizona Republic, 119th year, number323,page D6:Demi’sTweets help save woman[…]As the law of probabilities would dictate, Demi Moore’s millions ofTweets have finally saved a human life.
Tweet (third-person singular simple presentTweets,present participleTweeting,simple past and past participleTweeted)
- Alternativeletter-case form oftweet(“to post on Twitter”)
2009 April 1, Ofelia Casillas, “All a-Twitter over ‘Tamale Guy’”, inChicago Tribune, section 4,page 1, column 2:Girls want pictures with him; guys dress like him for Halloween; more than 500 people “Tweet” his whereabouts on the social networking Web site.
2009 September 11, Clay A. Dumas, “So You Think You Can Shout”, inThe Harvard Crimson[3], archived fromthe original on5 August 2013: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 andTweeted on their BlackBerries throughout the speech.
2017, Wendy K. Bendoni,Social Media for Fashion Marketing: Storytelling in a Digital World,Bloomsbury Visual Arts,→ISBN, page209:“I cannot tell you how many times I have Instagrammed orTweeted a piece that I am going to use on one of the characters on the show, and fans of the show are just yearning for it,” say Lane.
2018,Adam Rapp, chapter 1, inFum,Candlewick Press,→ISBN, page21:Corinthia’s bathroom was never discussed with the Lugo Memorial student body, but when it (the bathroom) materialized, it was Facebooked, Instagrammed,Tweeted, Foursquared, WordPressed, Tumblred, Snapchatted, and so thoroughly digitally disseminated that it was as if pictures of Rinna Buss’s breasts had been leaked.
2020, Shannon Takaoka,Everything I Thought I Knew,Candlewick Press,→ISBN, page250:People who live here pride themselves on being off the grid—a feat increasingly impossible in today’s always-Instagrammed, shared,Tweeted, GPS-mapped world.
Tweet andTweeter were the forms used by Twitter.[1][2]
- ^“How to Tweet”, inTwitter[1],2018, archived fromthe original on2018-01-03: “A Tweet may contain photos, GIFs, videos, links, and text.[…] How to Tweet”
- ^Mikael Thalen (2022 May 25) “Users telling pro-gun politicians to ‘f*ck off’ are getting flagged by Twitter, told to be nicer”, inThe Daily Dot[2], archived fromthe original on2022-05-25: “[picture from Twitter:] Most Tweeters don’t post replies like this / We’re asking Tweeters to review replies with potentially harmful or offensive language. Want to take another look before Tweeting?”
Borrowed fromEnglishtweet.
Tweet m (strong,genitiveTweetsorTweet,pluralTweets)
- tweet(post to Twitter)
- Synonyms:Twitterbeitrag,Twittereintrag
2023 January 26, “Lawrow in Afrika: Auswärtiges Amt bittet für Tweet mit Leopard-Emoji um Entschuldigung”, inDer Spiegel[4],→ISSN:Der Leopard wurde dabei mit einem Emoji dargestellt. DerTweet wurde bereits am 24. Januar veröffentlicht.- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
- Duden claims thatTweet is also used as a neuter noun. In practice, it is now almost exclusively treated as masculine.
Declension ofTweet [masculine, strong]
- “Tweet” inDuden online
- “Tweet” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
