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to retweet

to retweet

22 2.6
To share someone else's tweet so people who follow you can see it
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈtwiːt/
  • Texting
translation icon : retuitear
  • 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.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • So I, I did ask my most famous friend if she could retweet it and she did.

  • But you retweet some of those.

  • 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.

  • Engage with them, retweet them, boost their platforms.

  • And that got retweeted, you know, thousands of times.

  • Keke Palmer retweeted my tweet.

  • Many users choose to retweet posts that align with their beliefs to share them with their followers.

Synonyms

to repost
vsto retweet
  • Texting
22 2.8

To share something again on social media

is the same action but specific to a microblogging service for your followers
to reblog
vsto retweet
  • Texting
1 3.9

To share someone else's post on your blog or social account

is similar but used for short sharing on a microblogging platform for followers
to reshare
vsto retweet
  • Texting
1 3.3

To post something again so other people can see it

is the same but done specifically so followers see it on a microblogging site

Antonyms

1.0

Choose not to pay attention to someone or something

Surface Forms

retweet infinitive
retweeted past
retweeted past participle
retweeting present participle
retweets third person singular

Morphology

retweet = tweet (transparent) = re + tweet

Adding 're-' to 'tweet' transparently gives the meaning of posting or sharing the tweet again.

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.