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retweet en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From re- + tweet.
Meanings
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(qualifier:Twitter) A message reposted or forwarded in this way.
You know it's an iPhone or iPad app, but those new to you, who came via a retweet or Twitter search, may not know which platform your app supports.
2011, Dave Wooldridge, Michael Schneider, The Business of iPhone and iPad App Development, page 339:The sheer density of information and misinformation at the End, encapsulated in news articles and message-board theories and clickbait traps that had propagated hysterically through retweets and shares, had effectively rendered us more ignorant, more helpless, more innocent in our stupidity.
2018, Ling Ma, chapter 2, in Severance, →ISBN:According to Stewart's analysis, current case law makes it unlikely a retweeter would be held liable for a defamatory retweet […]
2013, Daxton Stewart, Social Media and the Law, page 42:
Forms
Synonyms
RT
Translations (13)
es retuiteo (message reposted or forwarded) · ja リツイート (message reposted or forwarded) · pt retuíte (message reposted or forwarded) · ko 리트위트 (message reposted or forwarded) · ru ретви́т (message reposted or forwarded) · ca repiulada (message reposted or forwarded) · uk ретві́т (message reposted or forwarded) · nl retweet (message reposted or forwarded) · fr retweet (message reposted or forwarded) · es retuit (message reposted or forwarded) · de Retweet (message reposted or forwarded) · ko 리트윗 (message reposted or forwarded) · et edasipostitus (message reposted or forwarded)
retweet en · VERB
Pronunciation
Etymology
From re- + tweet.
Meanings
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(intransitive, qualifier:Twitter, transitive) To repost or forward another user's message on the microblogging social networking website Twitter.
Because your messages will be relevant to them, they are much more likely to retweet your messages and recommend that other people follow you on Twitter.
2009, Geert Conard, Friends with Benefits, Networking in a New Economy:On Friday, it urged followers: “Retweet if you believe that Trump & his cronies are lying to the public and treating us like we’re stupid. We won’t be fooled by their games.”
2025 July 20, Ailia Zehra, “Busted: Fake MAGA bot accounts are now contradicting themselves over Trump and Epstein”, in Raw Story:And the web—particularly social media—provides countless opportunities for intertextuality, chances to recontextualize, retweet, repost, riposte.
2023 February 3, Pia Ceres, “Quoting Taylor Swift Lyrics Is an Actual Linguistic Thing”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 May 2023:
Forms
Deriveds
retweetable · quote retweet · unretweet · retweetability
Synonyms
rtwt · RT
Translations (14)
fr retweeter (repost or forward a Twitter message) · pt retwittar (repost or forward a Twitter message) · nrf èrtuiter (repost or forward a Twitter message) · ca repiular (repost or forward a Twitter message) · de retweeten (repost or forward a Twitter message) · pt retuitar (repost or forward a Twitter message) · it ritwittare (repost or forward a Twitter message) · es retuitear (repost or forward a Twitter message) · cmn 轉推 /转推 (repost or forward a Twitter message) · et edasisäuts (repost or forward a Twitter message) · eo repepi (repost or forward a Twitter message) · es retwittear (repost or forward a Twitter message) · it rituittare (repost or forward a Twitter message) · nl retweeten (repost or forward a Twitter message)