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, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, April 7 comic strip (→ISBN, p. 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. [from 2007]
   • 2007, April 22, “Jason Pontin”, in Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme‎:

     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 […]

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, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, April 7 comic strip (→ISBN, p. 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. [from 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!"

• quote tweet
• retweet
• subtweet
• tweetup
• tweeter

tweet

1. The sound of a bird twittering.
   • 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 title of the work)‎, American Dialect Society, 2010-01-08

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 quote)

   • 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 quote)

tweet

1. imperative of tweete

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

tweet m (plural tweets)

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

tweet m (plural tweets)

1. tweet

• twit

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

tweet (definite accusative tweeti, plural tweetler)

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