tweet

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.4 Verb 1.5 See also

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

(onomatopoeia)

[edit] Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːt

[edit] 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, “Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme”, International Herald-Tribune:

     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...

[edit] Verb

to tweet (third-person singular simple present tweets, present participle tweeting, simple past and past participle tweeted)

1. (intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
2. (intransitive, Internet) To post an update to Twitter.

[edit] See also

• twitter