tweet

noun

1. 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.”

2. An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.

   “Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.”

   “For example, as you edit a tweet in Twitter, the number of characters left is updated as you type.”

   “A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone […]”

3. (broadly)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.”

4. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of tweet (“Twitter post”).

   “Twitter allows users, called Twitterers, to stay constantly connected with friends and family by sending and receiving messages short messages called Tweets.[…]Write a short story in the maximum length of a Tweet.”

   “Julia Thompson will be sending out news Tweets ([…]) and I’ll be keeping you updated with cool calendar Tweets ([…]).”

   “The 34-year-old Fallon has also become a prolific Twitterer (yes, it really is him sending Tweets from his iPhone).”

   “So it makes sense that just over a year and countless Tweets later, the pair tied the knot last week in a 15-hour extravaganza that was chock-full of spontaneous Tweets not only by the bride and groom, but guests both in-person and on the Web.”

verb

1. (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.”

2. (ambitransitive)To post an entry to Twitter.

   “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.”

   “=Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"”

   “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.”

3. (ambitransitive, broadly)To post an entry to any microblogging site.

   “In response to the motion, Trump tweeted on Truth Social”

   “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.””

4. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of tweet (“to post on Twitter”).

   “Girls want pictures with him; guys dress like him for Halloween; more than 500 people “Tweet” his whereabouts on the social networking Web site.”

   “His comment galvanized fiscally conservative Democrats to support the president’s bill and heightened the sense of despondency among those Republican congressmen and senators who BBMed and Tweeted on their BlackBerries throughout the speech.”

   “He [Brandon Marshall] also Tweeted that he would earmark $1 million to mental-health research, which is significant to Marshall, having been diagnosed in 2012 with borderline-personality disorder.”

   ““I cannot tell you how many times I have Instagrammed or Tweeted a piece that I am going to use on one of the characters on the show, and fans of the show are just yearning for it,” say Lane.”

   “Corinthia’s bathroom was never discussed with the Lugo Memorial student body, but when it (the bathroom) materialized, it was Facebooked, Instagrammed, Tweeted, Foursquared, WordPressed, Tumblred, Snapchatted, and so thoroughly digitally disseminated that it was as if pictures of Rinna Buss’s breasts had been leaked.”

intj

1. used to represent the sound of a bird twittering: twit.

   “I've got two loves / And they go tweet (×9) like little birds”

name

1. A surname.