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tweet

tweet

225 2.6
A short message posted on Twitter
  • noun
  • /twiːt/
  • Texting
translation icon : tuit
  • And he better not be thinking too much: no tweet can be longer than 140 characters.
  • post a tweet
  • read tweets
  • send a tweet

Throw away, turn into a diary, a tweet, or just forget?

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Examples

  • You will never again see a tweet from President Trump.

  • The politician's latest tweet received thousands of reactions within minutes.

  • And I will never forget his next tweet to me was, Oh, hey, man.

  • It's not just your tweet.

  • I was sending a tweet.

  • This is again a tweet from Shaw Davis.

  • And now let me leave you with some tweets from Kate Darling.

  • Twitter deleted the tweet but didn't ban them.

  • In the case of Twitter, all public tweets are being archived by the Library of Congress.

    Academic text (2015)
  • My phone did allow me to send tweets, but it was incompatible with sending images.

    Academic text (2014)

Synonyms

post
vstweet
  • Texting
3.3

A message, photo, or comment shared on social media

is specific to messages published on Twitter

How Public

viral
  • Texting
108 3.7
tweet
  • Texting
225 2.6
reply
251 1.0
DM
  • Jargon
1 3.7

Surface Forms

tweet singular
tweets plural

Etymology

Tweet was taken by the social media site Twitter from the little bird sound 'tweet' to name its short messages, so a tweet is now a short online post.