Definition of "tweet"

/twiːt/

noun
plural tweets
1. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
  Quotations
  [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, page 104
2. (social media) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
  Quotations
  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
  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
  A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone […]
  2008, Chris Seibold, Big Book of Apple Hacks
verb
third-person singular simple present tweets, present participle tweeting, simple past tweeted or (Internet, rare, humorous) twote, past participle tweeted or (Internet, rare, humorous) twoten
1. (intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
  Quotations
  [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, page 104
2. (transitive, intransitive, social media) To post an update to Twitter.
  Quotations
  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
  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 2017-01-25
interjection
1. The sound of a bird twittering.
  Quotations
  I've got two loves / And they go tweet (×9) like little birds
  1977, David Byrne (lyrics and music), “Love → Building On Fire”, in Talking Heads: 77, performed by Talking Heads

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