Thetweet (sense 1 ) of lovebirds Onomatopoeic of the sound made by abird . Comparetwitter . The social media senses evolved from earlierTwitter update ,twit ( noun ) ,twitter ( verb ) .[ 1]
tweet (plural tweets )
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.
( 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[ …]
( 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. sound
Afrikaans:twiet Bulgarian:чуруликане n ( čurulikane ) ,писукане (bg) n ( pisukane ) Catalan:piulada (ca) f Chinese:Mandarin:鳴叫 / 鸣叫 (zh) ( míngjiào ) Danish:pip (da) n ,kvidder n Dutch:twiet Esperanto:pepo Estonian:siuts ,säuts Finnish:piipitys (fi) French:gazouillis (fr) m ,pépiement (fr) m Galician:chío m ,rechouchío m Georgian:ჭიკჭიკი ( č̣iḳč̣iḳi ) ,ჟღურტული ( žɣurṭuli ) German:Zwitschern n Hebrew:צִיּוּץ m ( tsiyúts ) Hungarian:csiripelés (hu) ,csipogás (hu) ,csivitelés (hu) ,csicsergés (hu) Irish:bíc f ,gíog f ,giolcadh m ,gíog f Macedonian:цвр́кање n ( cvŕkanje ) ,цврко́тење n ( cvrkótenje ) ,чурули́кање n ( čurulíkanje ) Malay:ciap-ciap ,ciak-ciak Maori:tīhau Norwegian:kvitter n Bokmål:kvitring m or f Nynorsk:kvitring f Polish:ćwierkanie (pl) n ,( of a bird ) trel (pl) m Portuguese:pio (pt) Russian:чири́канье (ru) n ( čiríkanʹje ) ,щебета́нье (ru) n ( ščebetánʹje ) ,трель (ru) f ( trelʹ ) Spanish:pío (es) f ,piada (es) f ,silbada (es) f Tagalog:siyap Turkish:cıvıldama (tr) ,cıvıltı (tr) Vietnamese:tiếng hót (vi)
internet: entry
Afrikaans:twiet Arabic:تَغْرِيدَة f ( taḡrīda ) Asturian:tuit m Basque:txio (eu) Bavarian:Tweet m Bengali:টুইট ( ṭuiṭ ) Catalan:piulada (ca) f ,tuit (ca) m ,tweet (ca) m Chinese:Mandarin:推文 (zh) ( tuīwén ) Danish:tweet (da) n Esperanto:pepo Estonian:säuts ,tviit ,tweet (et) Finnish:twiitti ,tviitti ,twiittaus French:tweet (fr) m ( Belgium, France ) ,gazouillis (fr) m ( Canada ) Galician:chío m Georgian:ტვიტი ( ṭviṭi ) German:Tweet (de) m ;Twitterbeitrag m ;Twittereintrag m Hebrew:צִיּוּץ m ( tsiyúts ) Hindi:ट्वीट m ( ṭvīṭ ) Hungarian:Twitter-bejegyzés ,tweetbejegyzés ,tweet (hu) Icelandic:tíst (is) n Irish:tvuít f Japanese:ツイート ( tsuīto ) ,つぶやき (ja) ( tsubuyaki ) Korean:트윗 ( teuwit ) ,트위트 ( teuwiteu ) Macedonian:твит (mk) m ( tvit ) Malay:kicau (ms) ,ciap (ms) ,twit ,ciapan (ms) Maori:tīhau Marathi:ट्वीट m ( ṭvīṭ ) Pashto:ټويټ ( ṭwíṭ ) Persian:توییت ( tuit ) ,پیام توییتری ( payâm-e tuiteri ) ( formal ) Polish:tweet (pl) m Portuguese:tuíte (pt) m ,tweet (pt) m Russian:твит (ru) m ( tvit ) Spanish:tuit (es) m ,tuiteo (es) m ,tweet m Turkish:tweet (tr) ,tvit ,twit
tweet (third-person singular simple present tweets ,present participle tweeting ,simple past tweeted or ( Internet, nonstandard ) twote ,past participle tweeted or ( Internet, nonstandard ) twoten )
( 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.
( 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.
( 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] :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.” to make a short high-pitched sound
Bulgarian:писукам (bg) ( pisukam ) ,чуруликам ( čurulikam ) Catalan:piular (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:鳴叫 / 鸣叫 (zh) ( míngjiào ) Esperanto:pepi Estonian:säutsuma ,siutsuma Finnish:piipittää Georgian:ჭიკჭიკებს ( č̣iḳč̣iḳebs ) ,ჟღურტულებს ( žɣurṭulebs ) German:zwitschern (de) Greek:κελαηδώ (el) ( kelaïdó ) Hebrew:צִיֵּץ (he) ( tziyyétz ) Hungarian:csiripel (hu) ,csipog (hu) ,csivitel (hu) ,csicsereg (hu) Irish:bheith aggíoglach ,bheith aggiolcaireacht ,gíog Japanese:さえずる (ja) ( saezuru ) Ladino:chuchulear Maori:tīhau ,pekī Norman:tuiter ( Jersey ) Norwegian:Bokmål:kvitre Nynorsk:kvitre /kvitra Polish:ćwierkać (pl) Portuguese:piar (pt) Russian:щебета́ть (ru) ( ščebetátʹ ) ,чири́кать (ru) ( čiríkatʹ ) Spanish:piar (es) Tagalog:sumiyap Vietnamese:hót (vi)
social media: to post an update to Twitter
Arabic:غَرَّدَ ( ḡarrada ) Asturian:tuitiar Basque:txiokatu Catalan:piular (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:发推 ( fātuī ) Danish:tweete Dutch:twitteren (nl) ,tweeten (nl) Esperanto:pepi Estonian:säutsuma ,tviitima ,tweetima Finnish:twiitata ,tviitata French:twitter (fr) ,twitterer ,tweeter (fr) ,gazouiller (fr) Georgian:ტვიტავს ( ṭviṭavs ) ( colloquial ) ,დატვიტავს ( daṭviṭavs ) ( colloquial ) German:twittern (de) ;( rarer ) tweeten ;( chiefly humorous ) zwitschern (de) Hebrew:צִיֵּץ (he) ( tziyyétz ) Hungarian:tweetel ,twittel ,(pleaseverify ) csiripel (hu) Icelandic:tísta Ido:twitar Interlingua:twitterar Irish:tvuíteáil ,bheith aggiolcaireacht ( intransitive ) ,giolc ( transitive ) Italian:cinguettare (it) Japanese:ツイートする ( tsuīto-suru ) ,つぶやく (ja) ( tsubuyaku ) Macedonian:твита ( tvita ) Maori:tīhau Marathi:ट्वीट करणे ( ṭvīṭ karṇe ) Norman:tuiter ( Jersey ) Norwegian:Bokmål:tvitre Nynorsk:tvitre /tvitra Persian:توییت کردن ( tuit kardan ) Polish:tweetować impf Portuguese:twittar (pt) ,tuitar (pt) Russian:тви́тить (ru) impf ( tvítitʹ ) ,тви́тать impf ( tvítatʹ ) ,тви́тнуть (ru) pf ( tvítnutʹ ) ( semelfactive ) Spanish:tuitear (es) ,twittear Swedish:tvittra (sv) ,twittra (sv) Turkish:tweet atmak ,tweetlemek ,tivit atmak ,tivitlemek
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used to represent thesound of abird twittering :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
used to represent the sound of a bird twittering
^ Craig Hockenberry (2013 June 28) “The Origin of Tweet”, infurbo.org [1] , archived fromthe original on2013-07-02 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 Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish tweet .
tweet m (plural tweets )
( social media ) tweet ( Twitter post ) Synonyms: tuit ,piulada Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish tweet .
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( 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) tweet
imperative oftweete Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish tweet
tweet m (plural tweets ,diminutive tweetje n )
( social media ) tweet ( Twitter post ) Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish tweet .
tweet m (plural tweets )
( social media ) tweet ( Twitter post ) Synonym: twit Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish tweet .
IPA (key ) : /ˈtwit/ Rhymes:-it Syllabification:tweet tweet m inan
( social media ) tweet ( Twitter post ) tweet inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANtweet in Polish dictionaries at PWNUnadapted borrowing fromEnglish tweet .
( 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/
tweet m (plural tweets )
( social media ) tweet ( Twitter post ) Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish tweet .
tweet m (plural tweets )
( social media ) tweet ( Twitter post ) Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish tweet .
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( social media ) tweet ( Twitter post ) Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish tweet .
tweet (definite accusative tweeti ,plural tweetler )
( social media ) tweet ( Twitter post )