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ragetweet en · NOUN

From rage + tweet. Compare ragequit.

(countable, informal, uncountable) An update posted to Twitter in anger.
- “Halt” understood that computing was culture. This idea — that technology is self-expression — has been cheapened through decades of faux-utopian advertising, and it rings a little sad today, after we’ve seen that culture yield social-media pile-ons, presidential ragetweets and the Gamergate harassment of female game developers like Cameron. 2017 October 14, James Poniewozik, “How Failure Made ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Great”, in The New York Times:
- The Trump curse meant this White House was in turmoil from the very first day. Unmanaged and unmanageable, this president governs by ragetweet and paranoia. 2019, Rick Wilson, Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever, New York, NY: Free Press, →ISBN, page 169:
- The answer to that question has less to do with Donald Trump than the constant crush of anguished media attention to every Trumpian rage-tweet, racist slur, authoritarian-accented threat, and expression of seething contempt for our institutions makes it seem. 2018, Greg Sargent, An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Trumpian Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics, New York, NY: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page unknown:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
rage tweet		alternative	lexicographic
rage-tweet		alternative	lexicographic
ragetweets	Number=Plur		lexicographic

From rage + tweet. Compare ragequit.

(ambitransitive, informal) To post an update to Twitter in anger.
- Trump was incensed by what he heard, even if he did not follow all the details. He spent Easter Sunday morning watching Fox and rage[-]tweeting about the migrants. 2019, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Michael D. Shear, Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 243:
- While their usefulness was debatable, they definitely gave the earlier V phones some identity, and there will certainly be a faction of LG fans who ragetweet the loss. 2017 October, Michael Simon, “LG V30 hands-on: A 6-inch beast with more power and fewer gimmicks”, in PC World, page 74:
- Welp. Another day, another thing for Twitter to rage-tweet about. This time, it’s all Netflix’s fault. Oh, and also, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss are to blame because people still aren’t over how they ruined the final season of Game of Thrones. 2019 August 8, Shannon Barbour, “LOL, Twitter Is Pissed About Netflix Hiring ‘Game of Thrones’ Writers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss”, in Cosmopolitan:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
ragetweets	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
ragetweeted	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
ragetweeted	Tense=Past		lexicographic
rage tweet		alternative	lexicographic
ragetweeting	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
rage-tweet		alternative	lexicographic