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

2014, Caspar Eric, 7 / 11, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:

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

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

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tweeten (definite nominative singular)
tweetet (definite nominative singular)
tweets (indefinite nominative plural)
tweetsene (definite nominative plural)
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tweets (genitive indefinite singular)
tweetens (definite genitive singular)
tweetets (definite genitive singular)
tweets' (genitive indefinite plural)
tweetsenes (definite genitive plural)
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tweet

nl-noun

tweet m (plural tweets, diminutive tweetje n)

tweets (plural)
tweetje (diminutive neuter)


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

1934 April 7, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 104:

The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.

Alternative form: Tweet

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

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

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

2008, Wendy Chisholm, Matthew May, Universal Design for Web Applications:

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

2008, Chris Seibold, Big Book of Apple Hacks:

(social media) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.

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.

2023 August 3, Kristen Holmes, The Lead with Jake Tapper, CNN:

(social media, by extension) An entry on any microblogging service.

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


tweet

(intransitive) To produce a short high-pitched sound, similar to that of certain birds.

Alternative form: Tweet

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.

2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian:

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

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

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.

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

(ambitransitive, social media) To post an entry to Twitter.

In response to the motion, Trump tweeted on Truth Social

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:

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.”

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

(ambitransitive, social media, by extension) To post an entry to any microblogging site.

en-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)

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

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social media: to post an entry to Twitter


tweet

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

1977, David Byrne, “Love → Building On Fire”, in Talking Heads: 77, performed by Talking Heads:

used to represent the sound of a bird twittering: twit.


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


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tweet (indefinite nominative singular)
tweets (genitive indefinite singular)
tweeten (definite nominative singular)
tweetens (definite genitive singular)
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tweetten (ablative singular)
tweetlerden (ablative plural)
tweetin (genitive singular)
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tweetim (first-person nominative singular)
tweetlerim (first-person nominative singular)
tweetin (nominative second-person singular)
tweetlerin (nominative second-person singular)
tweeti (nominative singular third-person)
tweetleri (nominative singular third-person)
tweetimiz (first-person nominative plural)
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tweetiniz (nominative plural second-person)
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tweetimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
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tweetlerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
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tweetlerine (dative plural third-person)
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tweetimizde (first-person locative plural)
tweetlerimizde (first-person locative plural)
tweetinizde (locative plural second-person)
tweetlerinizde (locative plural second-person)
tweetlerinde (locative plural third-person)
tweetimden (ablative first-person singular)
tweetlerimden (ablative first-person singular)
tweetinden (ablative second-person singular)
tweetlerinden (ablative second-person singular)
tweetinden (ablative singular third-person)
tweetlerinden (ablative singular third-person)
tweetimizden (ablative first-person plural)
tweetlerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
tweetinizden (ablative plural second-person)
tweetlerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
tweetlerinden (ablative plural third-person)
tweetimin (first-person genitive singular)
tweetlerimin (first-person genitive singular)
tweetinin (genitive second-person singular)
tweetlerinin (genitive second-person singular)
tweetinin (genitive singular third-person)
tweetlerinin (genitive singular third-person)
tweetimizin (first-person genitive plural)
tweetlerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
tweetinizin (genitive plural second-person)
tweetlerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
tweetlerinin (genitive plural third-person)
twit (alternative)
tivit (alternative)