tweet

See also: Tweet

English

The tweet (sense 1) of lovebirds

Etymology

Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtwiːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtwit/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːt

Noun

tweet (plural tweets)

2. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
   • 1934 April 7, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 104:

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

4. (social media) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter. [since 2007]

   Alternative form: Tweet

   • 2007 April 22, Jason Pontin, “Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme”, in International Herald-Tribune‎^[2]:

     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 […]

5. (social media, by extension) An entry on any microblogging service.
   • 2023 August 3, Kristen Holmes, The Lead with Jake Tapper‎^[3], CNN:

     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.

Translations

sound

• Afrikaans: twiet
• Bulgarian: чуруликане n (čurulikane), писукане (bg) n (pisukane)
• Catalan: piulada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鳴叫 / 鸣叫 (zh) (míngjiào)

• Danish: pip (da) n, kvidder n
• Dutch: twiet
• Esperanto: pepo
• Estonian: siuts, säuts
• Finnish: piipitys (fi)
• French: gazouillis (fr) m, pépiement (fr) m
• Galician: chío m, rechouchío m
• Georgian: ჭიკჭიკი (č̣iḳč̣iḳi), ჟღურტული (žɣurṭuli)
• German: Zwitschern n
• Hebrew: צִיּוּץ m (tsiyúts)
• Hungarian: csiripelés (hu), csipogás (hu), csivitelés (hu), csicsergés (hu)
• Irish: bíc f, gíog f, giolcadh m, gíog f
• Macedonian: цвр́кање n (cvŕkanje), цврко́тење n (cvrkótenje), чурули́кање n (čurulíkanje)
• Malay: ciap-ciap, ciak-ciak
• Maori: tīhau
• Norwegian: kvitter n

  Bokmål: kvitring m or f

  Nynorsk: kvitring f

• Polish: ćwierkanie (pl) n, (of a bird) trel (pl) m
• Portuguese: pio (pt)
• Russian: чири́канье (ru) n (čiríkanʹje), щебета́нье (ru) n (ščebetánʹje), трель (ru) f (trelʹ)
• Spanish: pío (es) f, piada (es) f, silbada (es) f
• Tagalog: siyap
• Turkish: cıvıldama (tr), cıvıltı (tr)
• Vietnamese: tiếng hót (vi)

internet: entry

• Afrikaans: twiet
• Arabic: تَغْرِيدَة f (taḡrīda)
• Asturian: tuit m
• Basque: txio (eu)
• Bavarian: Tweet m
• Bengali: টুইট (ṭuiṭ)
• Catalan: piulada (ca) f, tuit (ca) m, tweet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 推文 (zh) (tuīwén)

• Danish: tweet (da) n
• Esperanto: pepo
• Estonian: säuts, tviit, tweet (et)
• Finnish: twiitti, tviitti, twiittaus
• French: tweet (fr) m (Belgium, France), gazouillis (fr) m (Canada)
• Galician: chío m
• Georgian: ტვიტი (ṭviṭi)
• German: Tweet (de) m; Twitterbeitrag m; Twittereintrag m
• Hebrew: צִיּוּץ m (tsiyúts)
• Hindi: ट्वीट m (ṭvīṭ)
• Hungarian: Twitter-bejegyzés, tweetbejegyzés, tweet (hu)
• Icelandic: tíst (is) n
• Irish: tvuít f
• Japanese: ツイート (tsuīto), つぶやき (ja) (tsubuyaki)
• Korean: 트윗 (teuwit), 트위트 (teuwiteu)
• Macedonian: твит (mk) m (tvit)
• Malay: kicau (ms), ciap (ms), twit, ciapan (ms)
• Maori: tīhau
• Marathi: ट्वीट m (ṭvīṭ)
• Pashto: ټويټ (ṭwíṭ)
• Persian: توییت (tuit), پیام توییتری (payâm-e tuiteri) (formal)
• Polish: tweet (pl) m
• Portuguese: tuíte (pt) m, tweet (pt) m
• Russian: твит (ru) m (tvit)
• Spanish: tuit (es) m, tuiteo (es) m, tweet m
• Turkish: tweet (tr), tvit, twit

Verb

tweet (third-person singular simple present tweets, present participle tweeting, simple past tweeted or (Internet, nonstandard) twote, past participle tweeted or (Internet, nonstandard) twoten)

1. (intransitive) To produce a short high-pitched sound, similar to that of certain birds.
   • 1934 April 7, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 104:

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

2. (transitive, intransitive, social media) To post an update to Twitter. [since 2007]
   • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian‎^[4]:

     In Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative societies, one online rebel has rocked the Islamic establishment with tweeted allegations of corruption within the ruling royal family.

   • 2017 January 25, “Donald Trump: 'We will build Mexico border wall'”, in BBC World Service‎^[5], retrieved 2017-01-25:

     =Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"

   • 2024 February 7, Christian Wolmar, “LNER's crazy idea will price more people off the railway”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 44:

     First, an apology. Tweet in haste and repent at leisure. When I first heard about the idea, before I had properly examined it, I actually tweeted that this was [a] welcome 'innovation' from a state-controlled train operator.

3. (transitive, intransitive, social media, by extension) To post an update to any microblogging site.
   • 2023 September 17, Lou Kettering, “Federal prosecutors in DC 2020 election interference case request order to prohibit Trump making ‘inflammatory’ and ‘misleading’ statements”, in Jurist‎^[6]:

     In response to the motion, Trump tweeted on Truth Social

   • 2024 April 17, Doktor Zoom, “New York Times Joins Chris Rufo In Mean Girls Finger-Snapping At NPR CEO”, in Wonkette‎^[7]:

     As Georgetown public policy prof Dan Moynihan tweeted on Bluesky yesterday, the editors of the Times “are not falling for [Rufo’s] game, they are co-producing it.”

Derived terms

• live-tweet
• quote tweet
• retweet
• subtweet
• tweeter
• tweetup

 

Related terms

• skeet
• toot
• xeet

 

Translations

to make a short high-pitched sound

• Bulgarian: писукам (bg) (pisukam), чуруликам (čurulikam)
• Catalan: piular (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鳴叫 / 鸣叫 (zh) (míngjiào)

• Esperanto: pepi
• Estonian: säutsuma, siutsuma
• Finnish: piipittää
• Georgian: ჭიკჭიკებს (č̣iḳč̣iḳebs), ჟღურტულებს (žɣurṭulebs)
• German: zwitschern (de)
• Greek: κελαηδώ (el) (kelaïdó)
• Hebrew: צִיֵּץ (he) (tziyyétz)
• Hungarian: csiripel (hu), csipog (hu), csivitel (hu), csicsereg (hu)
• Irish: bheith ag gíoglach, bheith ag giolcaireacht, gíog
• Japanese: さえずる (ja) (saezuru)
• Ladino: chuchulear
• Maori: tīhau, pekī
• Norman: tuiter (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kvitre

  Nynorsk: kvitre / kvitra

• Polish: ćwierkać (pl)
• Portuguese: piar (pt)
• Russian: щебета́ть (ru) (ščebetátʹ), чири́кать (ru) (čiríkatʹ)
• Spanish: piar (es)
• Tagalog: sumiyap
• Vietnamese: hót (vi)

socilal media: to post an update to Twitter

• Arabic: غَرَّدَ (ḡarrada)
• Asturian: tuitiar
• Basque: txiokatu
• Catalan: piular (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 发推 (fātuī)

• Danish: tweete
• Dutch: twitteren (nl), tweeten (nl)
• Esperanto: pepi
• Estonian: säutsuma, tviitima, tweetima
• Finnish: twiitata, tviitata
• French: twitter (fr), twitterer, tweeter (fr), gazouiller (fr)
• Georgian: ტვიტავს (ṭviṭavs) (colloquial), დატვიტავს (daṭviṭavs) (colloquial)
• German: twittern (de); (rarer) tweeten; (chiefly humorous) zwitschern (de)
• Hebrew: צִיֵּץ (he) (tziyyétz)
• Hungarian: tweetel, twittel, ^{(please verify)} csiripel (hu)
• Icelandic: tísta
• Ido: twitar
• Interlingua: twitterar
• Irish: tvuíteáil, bheith ag giolcaireacht (intransitive), giolc (transitive)
• Italian: cinguettare (it)
• Japanese: ツイートする (tsuīto-suru), つぶやく (ja) (tsubuyaku)
• Macedonian: твита (tvita)
• Maori: tīhau
• Marathi: ट्वीट करणे (ṭvīṭ karṇe)
• Norman: tuiter (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tvitre

  Nynorsk: tvitre / tvitra

• Persian: توییت کردن (tuit kardan)
• Polish: tweetować impf
• Portuguese: twittar (pt), tuitar (pt)
• Russian: тви́тить (ru) impf (tvítitʹ), тви́тать impf (tvítatʹ), тви́тнуть (ru) pf (tvítnutʹ) (semelfactive)
• Spanish: tuitear (es), twittear
• Swedish: tvittra (sv), twittra (sv)
• Turkish: tweet atmak, tweetlemek, tivit atmak, tivitlemek

Interjection

tweet

2. used to represent the sound of a bird twittering: twit.
   • 1977, David Byrne (lyrics and music), “Love → Building On Fire”, in Talking Heads: 77, performed by Talking Heads:

     I've got two loves / And they go tweet (×9) like little birds

Translations

used to represent the sound of a bird twittering

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 啾 (zh) (jiū)

• Finnish: piip (fi)
• Hungarian: csip (hu), csirip (hu), csip-csip, csip-csirip
• Polish: ćwir (pl)
• Portuguese: piu
• Russian: чик-чирик (čik-čirik), чирик-чирик (čirik-čirik) (common), чив-чив (čiv-čiv) (rare)
• Vietnamese: líu lo (vi), líu la líu lo, líu lô (vi)

See also

• twitter
• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

Further reading

• tweet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “'Tweet' 2009 Word of the Year, 'Google' Word of the Decade, as voted by American Dialect Society”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[8], American Dialect Society, 2010 January 8

Catalan

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

Noun

tweet m (plural tweets)

2. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)

   Synonyms: tuit, piulada

Danish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

Noun

tweet

2. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)
   • 2014, Caspar Eric, 7 / 11, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:

     ... og at du lyver i dine tweets / ... / jeg skriver et tweet med våde fingre / ... / og der er 7 personer der citerer tweeten ...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2015, Anna Erelle, Forklædt som jihad-brud, Art People, →ISBN:

     David Thomsons kontakter synes, hans historie er for tyk, og han har trukket tweetet tilbage.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of tweet

either gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tweet	tweeten tweetet	tweets	tweetsene tweetene
genitive	tweets	tweetens tweetets	tweets'	tweetsenes tweetenes

Verb

tweet

1. imperative of tweete

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʋit/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

tweet m (plural tweets, diminutive tweetje n)

2. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)

Related terms

• retweet
• tweeten

 

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twit/

Noun

tweet m (plural tweets)

2. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)

   Synonym: twit

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtwit/
• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: tweet

Noun

tweet m inan

2. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)

Declension

Declension of tweet

	singular	plural
nominative	tweet	tweety
genitive	tweetu	tweetów
dative	tweetowi	tweetom
accusative	tweet	tweety
instrumental	tweetem	tweetami
locative	tweecie	tweetach
vocative	tweecie	tweety

Derived terms

noun

• alkotweet

 

verb

• tweetować impf

 

Related terms

noun

• Twitter

 

Further reading

• tweet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tweet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• tuíte (standard spelling)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tuˈi.t͡ʃi/ [tʊˈi.t͡ʃi], (faster pronunciation) /ˈtwi.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tuˈi.t͡ʃi/ [tʊˈi.t͡ʃi], (faster pronunciation) /ˈtwi.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /tuˈi.te/ [tʊˈi.te], (faster pronunciation) /ˈtwi.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtwi.tɨ/

Noun

tweet m (plural tweets)

2. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)

Related terms

• retweetar, retuitar
• tuitaço
• tweetar, tuitar
• twitteiro, tuiteiro

 

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtwit/ [ˈt̪wit̪]
• Rhymes: -it

Noun

tweet m (plural tweets)

2. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

Noun

tweet c

2. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)

Declension

Declension of tweet

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	tweet	tweets
	definite	tweeten	tweetens
plural	indefinite	tweetar	tweetars
	definite	tweetarna	tweetarnas

Related terms

• tweeta
• twittra

Further reading

• tweet in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Turkish

Alternative forms

• twit

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.

Noun

tweet (definite accusative tweeti, plural tweetler)

2. (social media) tweet (Twitter post)

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	tweet
Definite accusative	tweeti
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tweet	tweetler
Definite accusative	tweeti	tweetleri
Dative	tweete	tweetlere
Locative	tweette	tweetlerde
Ablative	tweetten	tweetlerden
Genitive	tweetin	tweetlerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular tweetim tweetlerim 2nd singular tweetin tweetlerin 3rd singular tweeti tweetleri 1st plural tweetimiz tweetlerimiz 2nd plural tweetiniz tweetleriniz 3rd plural tweetleri tweetleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular tweetimi tweetlerimi 2nd singular tweetini tweetlerini 3rd singular tweetini tweetlerini 1st plural tweetimizi tweetlerimizi 2nd plural tweetinizi tweetlerinizi 3rd plural tweetlerini tweetlerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular tweetime tweetlerime 2nd singular tweetine tweetlerine 3rd singular tweetine tweetlerine 1st plural tweetimize tweetlerimize 2nd plural tweetinize tweetlerinize 3rd plural tweetlerine tweetlerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular tweetimde tweetlerimde 2nd singular tweetinde tweetlerinde 3rd singular tweetinde tweetlerinde 1st plural tweetimizde tweetlerimizde 2nd plural tweetinizde tweetlerinizde 3rd plural tweetlerinde tweetlerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular tweetimden tweetlerimden 2nd singular tweetinden tweetlerinden 3rd singular tweetinden tweetlerinden 1st plural tweetimizden tweetlerimizden 2nd plural tweetinizden tweetlerinizden 3rd plural tweetlerinden tweetlerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular tweetimin tweetlerimin 2nd singular tweetinin tweetlerinin 3rd singular tweetinin tweetlerinin 1st plural tweetimizin tweetlerimizin 2nd plural tweetinizin tweetlerinizin 3rd plural tweetlerinin tweetlerinin