English

Noun

tweet ‎(plural tweets)

1. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
2. (Internet) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
   • 2007, April 22, “Jason Pontin”, in Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme:

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

   • 2008, Wendy Chisholm, Matthew May, Universal Design for Web Applications

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

   • 2008, Chris Seibold, Big Book of Apple Hacks

     A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone...

Translations

Verb

tweet ‎(third-person singular simple present tweets, present participle tweeting, simple past tweeted or (internet, very rare) twote, past participle tweeted or (internet, very rare) twoten)

1. (intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
2. (transitive, intransitive, Internet) To post an update to Twitter.
   • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:

     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.

Derived terms

• retweet
• tweetup
• tweeter

Translations

External links

• “'Tweet' 2009 Word of the Year, 'Google' Word of the Decade, as voted by American Dialect Society”, in (Please provide the title of the work), American Dialect Society, 2010-01-08

See also

• twitter
• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

French

Noun

tweet m ‎(plural tweets)

1. a tweet (a message on Twitter)

Synonyms

• (Twitter): twit

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• tuíte

Noun

tweet m (plural tweets)

1. (Internet) tweet (entry posted on Twitter)

Spanish

Noun

tweet m ‎(plural tweets)

1. tweet