Meaning of Twitter | Babel Free

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

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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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