Twitter

Definitions

1. An online social networking and microblogging service; officially known as X since 2023.
2. A user account on Twitter.
   Internet, informal
3. The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
   uncountable
4. A knot or other defect in a thread or yarn which hinders spinning or weaving; a twit.
   Northern-England, Scotland, archaic
5. A feed on Twitter.
   Internet, informal
6. Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
   uncountable
7. A community on Twitter.
   Internet, in-compounds, informal, usually
8. A tremulous broken sound.
   countable
9. A slight trembling of the nerves.
   countable
10. Chiefly in the form in a twitter: a state of excitement or nervousness; a twit.
    British, countable, informal, regional

Equivalents

Examples

“I often listen⟳ to the twitter of the birds in the park⟳.”

“Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate.”

“There were, of course, many Twitters existing in parallel: Politics Twitter, Sports Twitter, Black Twitter, Weird Twitter. But Twitter and TV went together like⟳ extreme weather and marine predators.”

“I've lost the password to my Twitter.”

“I deleted Twitter last⟳ night. I just can't keep⟳ up anymore.”

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