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See also:Tweet

English

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Thetweet (sense 1) of lovebirds

Etymology

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    Onomatopoeic of the sound made by abird. Comparetwitter. The social media senses evolved from earlierTwitter update,twit(noun),twitter(verb).[1]

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    Noun

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    tweet (pluraltweets)

    1. Thesound of abird; any short high-pitched sound orwhistle.
      • 1934 April 7,George Herriman,Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip,→ISBN, page104:
        [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweetingtweets on it.
    2. (social media) An entry posted on themicroblogging serviceTwitter.[since 2007]
      Alternative form:Tweet
      • 2007 April 22, Jason Pontin, “Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme”, inInternational Herald-Tribune[2]:
        Every few seconds, atweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.
      • 2008, Wendy Chisholm, Matthew May,Universal Design for Web Applications:
        For example, as you edit atweet in Twitter, the number of characters left is updated as you type.
      • 2008, Chris Seibold,Big Book of Apple Hacks:
        Atweet 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[3], CNN:
        He was watching the media coverage, talking to his lawyers. And we saw that because of histweets onTruth Social, or his posts on Truth Social.

    Translations

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    sound
    internet: entry

    Verb

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    tweet (third-person singular simple presenttweets,present participletweeting,simple pasttweetedor(Internet, nonstandard)twote,past participletweetedor(Internet, nonstandard)twoten)

    1. (intransitive) To produce a short high-pitched sound, similar to that of certain birds.
      • 1934 April 7,George Herriman,Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip,→ISBN, page104:
        [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of funtweeting tweets on it.
    2. (ambitransitive, social media) To post an update toTwitter.[since 2007]
      • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, inThe Guardian[4]:
        In Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative societies, one online rebel has rocked the Islamic establishment withtweeted allegations of corruption within the ruling royal family.
      • 2017 January 25, “Donald Trump: 'We will build Mexico border wall'”, inBBC World Service[5], retrieved2017-01-25:
        =Mr Trumptweeted: "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”, inRAIL, number1002, page44:
        First, an apology.Tweet in haste and repent at leisure. When I first heard about the idea, before I had properly examined it, I actuallytweeted that this was [a] welcome 'innovation' from a state-controlled train operator.
    3. (ambitransitive, 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”, inJurist[6]:
        In response to the motion, Trumptweeted onTruth Social
      • 2024 April 17, Doktor Zoom, “New York Times Joins Chris Rufo In Mean Girls Finger-Snapping At NPR CEO”, inWonkette[7]:
        As Georgetown public policy prof Dan Moynihantweeted onBluesky yesterday, the editors of the Times “are not falling for [Rufo’s] game, they are co-producing it.”

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    Related terms

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    Translations

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    to make a short high-pitched sound
    social media: to post an update to Twitter

    Interjection

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    tweet

    1. used to represent thesound of abirdtwittering:twit.
      • 1977,David Byrne, “Love → Building On Fire”, inTalking Heads: 77, performed by Talking Heads:
        I've got two loves / And they gotweet (×9) like little birds

    Translations

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    used to represent the sound of a bird twittering

    See also

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    References

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    1. ^Craig Hockenberry (2013 June 28) “The Origin of Tweet”, infurbo.org[1], archived fromthe original on2013-07-02

    Further reading

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    • 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)[8], American Dialect Society, 2010 January 8

    Catalan

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    Etymology

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      Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishtweet.

      Noun

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      tweet m (pluraltweets)

      1. (social media)tweet(Twitter post)
        Synonyms:tuit,piulada

      Danish

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      Etymology

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        Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishtweet.

        Noun

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        tweet

        1. (social media)tweet(Twitter post)
          • 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 ...
            (pleaseadd 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.
            (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

        Declension

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        Declension oftweet
        either
        gender
        singularplural
        indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
        nominativetweettweeten
        tweetet
        tweetstweetsene
        tweetene
        genitivetweetstweetens
        tweetets
        tweets'tweetsenes
        tweetenes

        Verb

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        tweet

        1. imperative oftweete

        Dutch

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        Etymology

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          Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishtweet

          Pronunciation

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          Noun

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          tweet m (pluraltweets,diminutivetweetje n)

          1. (social media)tweet(Twitter post)

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          French

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          Etymology

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            Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishtweet.

            Pronunciation

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            Noun

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            tweet m (pluraltweets)

            1. (social media)tweet(Twitter post)
              Synonym:twit

            Polish

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            Etymology

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              Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishtweet.

              Pronunciation

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

              Noun

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              tweet inan

              1. (social media)tweet(Twitter post)

              Declension

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              Declension oftweet
              singularplural
              nominativetweettweety
              genitivetweetutweetów
              dativetweetowitweetom
              accusativetweettweety
              instrumentaltweetemtweetami
              locativetweecietweetach
              vocativetweecietweety

              Derived terms

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              noun
              verb

              Related terms

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              noun

              Further reading

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

              Portuguese

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              Alternative forms

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              Etymology

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                Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishtweet.

                Pronunciation

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                • (Brazil)IPA(key): /tuˈi.t͡ʃi/[tʊˈi.t͡ʃi],(faster pronunciation)/ˈtwi.t͡ʃi/
                • (Brazil)IPA(key): /tuˈi.t͡ʃi/[tʊˈi.t͡ʃi],(faster pronunciation)/ˈtwi.t͡ʃi/
                  • (Southern Brazil)IPA(key): /tuˈi.te/[tʊˈi.te],(faster pronunciation)/ˈtwi.te/

                Noun

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                tweet m (pluraltweets)

                1. (social media)tweet(Twitter post)

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                Spanish

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                Etymology

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                  Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishtweet.

                  Pronunciation

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                  Noun

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                  tweet m (pluraltweets)

                  1. (social media)tweet(Twitter post)

                  Swedish

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                  Etymology

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                    Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishtweet.

                    Noun

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                    tweet c

                    1. (social media)tweet(Twitter post)

                    Declension

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                    Declension oftweet
                    nominativegenitive
                    singularindefinitetweettweets
                    definitetweetentweetens
                    pluralindefinitetweetartweetars
                    definitetweetarnatweetarnas

                    Related terms

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                    Further reading

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                    Turkish

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                    Alternative forms

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                    Etymology

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                      Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishtweet.

                      Noun

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                      tweet (definite accusativetweeti,pluraltweetler)

                      1. (social media)tweet(Twitter post)

                      Declension

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                      Declension oftweet
                      singularplural
                      nominativetweettweetler
                      definite accusativetweetitweetleri
                      dativetweetetweetlere
                      locativetweettetweetlerde
                      ablativetweettentweetlerden
                      genitivetweetintweetlerin
                      Possessive forms
                      nominative
                      singularplural
                      1st singulartweetimtweetlerim
                      2nd singulartweetintweetlerin
                      3rd singulartweetitweetleri
                      1st pluraltweetimiztweetlerimiz
                      2nd pluraltweetiniztweetleriniz
                      3rd pluraltweetleritweetleri
                      definite accusative
                      singularplural
                      1st singulartweetimitweetlerimi
                      2nd singulartweetinitweetlerini
                      3rd singulartweetinitweetlerini
                      1st pluraltweetimizitweetlerimizi
                      2nd pluraltweetinizitweetlerinizi
                      3rd pluraltweetlerinitweetlerini
                      dative
                      singularplural
                      1st singulartweetimetweetlerime
                      2nd singulartweetinetweetlerine
                      3rd singulartweetinetweetlerine
                      1st pluraltweetimizetweetlerimize
                      2nd pluraltweetinizetweetlerinize
                      3rd pluraltweetlerinetweetlerine
                      locative
                      singularplural
                      1st singulartweetimdetweetlerimde
                      2nd singulartweetindetweetlerinde
                      3rd singulartweetindetweetlerinde
                      1st pluraltweetimizdetweetlerimizde
                      2nd pluraltweetinizdetweetlerinizde
                      3rd pluraltweetlerindetweetlerinde
                      ablative
                      singularplural
                      1st singulartweetimdentweetlerimden
                      2nd singulartweetindentweetlerinden
                      3rd singulartweetindentweetlerinden
                      1st pluraltweetimizdentweetlerimizden
                      2nd pluraltweetinizdentweetlerinizden
                      3rd pluraltweetlerindentweetlerinden
                      genitive
                      singularplural
                      1st singulartweetimintweetlerimin
                      2nd singulartweetinintweetlerinin
                      3rd singulartweetinintweetlerinin
                      1st pluraltweetimizintweetlerimizin
                      2nd pluraltweetinizintweetlerinizin
                      3rd pluraltweetlerinintweetlerinin
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