to retweet
- verb
- /ˌriːˈtwiːt/
- Texting
- And I started following other people, retweeting some of what they said, and talking to them.
It's fun to go back and retweet your old, old tweets.
- It's fun to go back and retweet your old, old tweets.
- Ben Shapiro retweeted it and wrote LMAO.
- There was another thing I retweeted, which I'll pull up here.
- And Karine Jean Pierre retweets it with boom, with the big eyes.
- Yeah, Yeah, I retweeted that because it was hilarious.
- I don't remember retweeting that, but I mean, it could be true.
- How do you feel about about a fave for option A, retweet for option B poll?
- Who's the Boss If you like this design or retweet if you like this design.
- I will troll the Greyhound bus help Twitter feed and I'll retweet some tweets out of that.
- I'm going to write a tweet, tweet it, and all you have to do is retweet the tweet.
Examples
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On a similar note, if you hope people will retweet what you write, you have to do the same for other people.
Academic text (2011) -
Tag me in it, too, so I can retweet it.
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So I, I did ask my most famous friend if she could retweet it and she did.
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But you retweet some of those.
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You can then collect them and retweet them as you see fit.
Academic text (2011) -
I'd like to follow and retweet some of you and that would be fun.
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Engage with them, retweet them, boost their platforms.
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And that got retweeted, you know, thousands of times.
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Keke Palmer retweeted my tweet.
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Many users choose to retweet posts that align with their beliefs to share them with their followers.
Synonyms
To share something again on social media
To share someone else's post on your blog or social account
To post something again so other people can see it
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Retweet is made of re- ('again') and tweet ('short message'), so think of sharing a message again like repeating a bird's call. So to retweet someone is to share their tweet again so your followers can see it.