Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).
Meanings
used to represent the sound of a bird twittering: twit.
I've got two loves / And they go tweet (×9) like little birds 1977, David Byrne, “Love → Building On Fire”, in Talking Heads: 77, performed by Talking Heads:
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Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).
Meanings
The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
[Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it. 1934 April 7, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 104:
(qualifier:social media) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone […] 2008, Chris Seibold, Big Book of Apple Hacks:
For example, as you edit a tweet in Twitter, the number of characters left is updated as you type. 2008, Wendy Chisholm, Matthew May, Universal Design for Web Applications:
Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe. 2007 April 22, Jason Pontin, “Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme”, in International Herald-Tribune:
(broadly, qualifier:social media) An entry on any microblogging service.
He was watching the media coverage, talking to his lawyers. And we saw that because of his tweets on Truth Social, or his posts on Truth Social. 2023 August 3, Kristen Holmes, The Lead with Jake Tapper, CNN:
Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).
Meanings
(intransitive) To produce a short high-pitched sound, similar to that of certain birds.
[Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it. 1934 April 7, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 104:
(ambitransitive, qualifier:social media) To post an entry to Twitter.
=Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!" 2017 January 25, “Donald Trump: 'We will build Mexico border wall'”, in BBC World Service, retrieved 25 Jan 2017:
In Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative societies, one online rebel has rocked the Islamic establishment with tweeted allegations of corruption within the ruling royal family. 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian:
First, an apology. Tweet in haste and repent at leisure. When I first heard about the idea, before I had properly examined it, I actually tweeted that this was [a] welcome 'innovation' from a state-controlled train operator. 2024 February 7, Christian Wolmar, “LNER's crazy idea will price more people off the railway”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 44:
(ambitransitive, broadly, qualifier:social media) To post an entry to any microblogging site.
As Georgetown public policy prof Dan Moynihan tweeted on Bluesky yesterday, the editors of the Times “are not falling for [Rufo’s] game, they are co-producing it.” 2024 April 17, Doktor Zoom, “New York Times Joins Chris Rufo In Mean Girls Finger-Snapping At NPR CEO”, in Wonkette:
In response to the motion, Trump tweeted on Truth Social 2023 September 17, Lou Kettering, “Federal prosecutors in DC 2020 election interference case request order to prohibit Trump making ‘inflammatory’ and ‘misleading’ statements”, in Jurist:
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