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The tweet (noun sense 1) of lovebirds

Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).[1]

tweet (plural tweets)

  1. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
    • 1934 April 7, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 104:
      [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.
  2. (social media) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter. [since 2007]
    Alternative form: Tweet
    • 2007 April 22, Jason Pontin, “Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme”, in International Herald-Tribune‎[2]:
      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 […]
  3. (social media, by extension) An entry on any microblogging service.
    • 2023 August 3, Kristen Holmes, The Lead with Jake Tapper‎[3], CNN:
      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.

sound

internet: entry

tweet (third-person singular simple present tweets, present participle tweeting, simple past tweeted or (Internet, nonstandard) twote, past participle tweeted or (Internet, nonstandard) twote or (Internet, nonstandard) twoten)

  1. (intransitive) To produce a short high-pitched sound, similar to that of certain birds.
    • 1934 April 7, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 104:
      [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.
  2. (ambitransitive, social media) To post an entry to Twitter. [since 2007]
    Alternative form: Tweet
    • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian‎[4]:
      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.
    • 2017 January 25, “Donald Trump: 'We will build Mexico border wall'”, in BBC World Service‎[5], retrieved 25 January 2017:
      =Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"
    • 2024 February 7, Christian Wolmar, “LNER's crazy idea will price more people off the railway”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 44:
      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, social media, by extension) To post an entry to any microblogging site.
    • 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[6]:
      In response to the motion, Trump tweeted on Truth Social
    • 2024 April 17, Doktor Zoom, “New York Times Joins Chris Rufo In Mean Girls Finger-Snapping At NPR CEO”, in Wonkette‎[7]:
      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.”

to make a short high-pitched sound

tweet

  1. used to represent the sound of a bird twittering: twit.
    • 1977, David Byrne, “Love → Building On Fire”, in Talking Heads: 77, performed by Talking Heads:
      I've got two loves / And they go tweet (×9) like little birds
  1. ^ Craig Hockenberry (28 June 2013), “The Origin of Tweet”, in furbo.org‎[1], archived from the original on 2 July 2013

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

tweet m (plural tweets)

  1. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)
    Synonyms: tuit, piulada

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

tweet

  1. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)
    • 2014, Caspar Eric, 7 / 11, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:
      ... og at du lyver i dine tweets / ... / jeg skriver et tweet med våde fingre / ... / og der er 7 personer der citerer tweeten ...
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 2015, Anna Erelle, Forklædt som jihad-brud, Art People, →ISBN:
      David Thomsons kontakter synes, hans historie er for tyk, og han har trukket tweetet tilbage.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

tweet

  1. imperative of tweete

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet

tweet m (plural tweets, diminutive tweetje n)

  1. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

tweet m (plural tweets)

  1. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)
    Synonym: twit

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

tweet m inan

  1. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

tweet m (plural tweets)

  1. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

tweet m (plural tweets)

  1. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

tweet c

  1. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

tweet (definite accusative tweeti, plural tweetler)

  1. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)