Tweet

proper noun

1. 1

   A surname.

noun

1. 1

   Variant of tweetAlternative letter-case form of tweet (“Twitter post”).

   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 ([…]).

   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.

verb

1. 1

   Variant of tweetAlternative letter-case form of tweet (“to post on Twitter”).

   Girls want pictures with him; guys dress like him for Halloween; more than 500 people “Tweet” his whereabouts on the social networking Web site.

   His comment galvanized fiscally conservative Democrats to support the president’s bill and heightened the sense of despondency among those Republican congressmen and senators who BBMed and Tweeted on their BlackBerries throughout the speech.

   He [Brandon Marshall] also Tweeted that he would earmark $1 million to mental-health research, which is significant to Marshall, having been diagnosed in 2012 with borderline-personality disorder.

   “I cannot tell you how many times I have Instagrammed or Tweeted a piece that I am going to use on one of the characters on the show, and fans of the show are just yearning for it,” say Lane.

Forms

plural

Tweets

past tense

Tweeted

past participle

Tweeted

present participle

Tweeting

third person singular

Tweets