tweet
See also: Tweet
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- (Twitter post): Tweet
Etymology edit
Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).[1]
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Noun edit
tweet (plural tweets)
- 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.
- (social media) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter. [since 2007]
- 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 […]
Translations edit
sound
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internet: entry
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Verb edit
tweet (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)
- (intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like 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.
- (transitive, intransitive, social media) To post an update to Twitter. [since 2007]
- 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian[3]:
- 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[4], retrieved 2017-01-25:
- 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.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
to make a short high-pitched sound
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internet: to post an update to Twitter
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Interjection edit
tweet
- Used to represent the sound of a bird twittering: twit.
- 1977, David Byrne (lyrics and music), “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
Translations edit
used to represent the sound of a bird twittering
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See also edit
References edit
- ^ Craig Hockenberry (June 28th, 2013), “The Origin of Tweet”, in furbo.org[1], archived from the original on 2013-07-02
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tweet m (plural tweets)
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tweet
- tweet (Twitter)
- 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)
Declension edit
Declension of tweet
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tweet
- imperative of tweete
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tweet m (plural tweets, diminutive tweetje n)
- tweet (Twitter message)
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tweet m (plural tweets)
Polish edit
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Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.
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tweet m inan
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Declension of tweet
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noun
verb
- tweetować impf
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noun
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tweet m (plural tweets)
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tweet m (plural tweets)
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tweet c
- tweet (message on Twitter)
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Declension of tweet | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | tweet | tweeten | tweetar | tweetarna |
Genitive | tweets | tweetens | tweetars | tweetarnas |
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Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.
Noun edit
tweet (definite accusative tweeti, plural tweetler)