Meaning of Tweet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Alternative letter-case form of tweet (“Twitter post”).
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3. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
4. A surname
5. A weak chirping sound, as of a young or small bird.
6. An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
7. Alternative letter-case form of tweet (“Twitter post”)
8. A message posted on Twitter. Tweets are limited to 140 characters.
9. An entry on any microblogging service.
   broadly
10. Alternative letter-case form of tweet (“to post on Twitter”)
11. To utter a weak chirping sound.
12. To write a tweet on Twitter.
13. (Zoology) (often reiterated) an imitation or representation of the thin chirping sound made by small or young birds
    often reiterated
14. (Zoology) (intr) to make this sound
    intr
15. to post a short message on the Twitter website
16. a thin chirping sound
17. a short message posted on the Twitter website
18. a chirping sound, as of a small bird.

Equivalents

Examples

“[Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.”

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

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

“A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone […]”

“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.”

“Twitter allows users, called Twitterers, to stay constantly connected with friends and family by sending and receiving messages short messages called Tweets.[…]Write a short story in the maximum length of a Tweet.”

“Julia Thompson will be sending out news Tweets ([…]) and I’ll be keeping you updated with cool calendar Tweets ([…]).”

“Twitter, if you’re not familiar with it, is a form of micro-blogging, which allows users to send very short updates on what they’re doing to anyone interested to receive them and last week several “Tweets” – as the Twitter postings are called – started appearing in the BBC’s coverage.[…]Given that several “Tweets” instructively contradicted the official line on what was happening you might argue that this enlistment of an army of virtual stringers improved the BBC’s coverage. But that argument wouldn’t take account of the subtle alteration of trust that takes place when you read coverage that cuts and pastes random “Tweets” alongside more conventional forms of BBC journalism.”

“The 34-year-old Fallon has also become a prolific Twitterer (yes, it really is him sending Tweets from his iPhone).”

“So it makes sense that just over a year and countless Tweets later, the pair tied the knot last week in a 15-hour extravaganza that was chock-full of spontaneous Tweets not only by the bride and groom, but guests both in-person and on the Web.”

“I don’t doubt the time- and hassle-saving example, but my guess is that for every one of those there are 999 Tweets about going to the mall or going to see friends or going to see friends at the mall.[…]Twitterers join lists of people they want to follow (not my word, but I like it), and if they follow 15 people who send out five Tweets each, that’s a lot of techno-sludge to wade through every day.[…]Most of the politicians who aren’t boring are offensive, and any journalist who can tell a story in 140 characters—that’s the maximum Tweet length—isn’t writing about anything that interests me.”

“Demi’s Tweets help save woman[…]As the law of probabilities would dictate, Demi Moore’s millions of Tweets have finally saved a human life.”

“The heart of the matter is this: feminism’s been hijacked by the dark forces of judginess, by our communally created fear that our every deed, word, thought, joke and Tweet is being monitored for fuck ups.”

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