tweet

1 of 2

noun

ˈtwēt 

1

: a chirping note

2

: a post made on the X online message service

tweet

2 of 2

verb

tweeted; tweeting; tweets

transitive + intransitive

1

: to make a chirping sound

Later I'll want to hear the high frequencies again, the birds tweeting in the morning and the raindrops on the roof.

—Dee Snider

2

: to make a posting on the X online message service : to post a tweet (see tweet entry 1 sense 2)

Madison's job was to verify information being sent in and then relay that to legal observers, street medics, and other organizers who could in turn tweet the information to the masses in the streets.

—Matthew Power

You can tweet as much as you want or lurk without comment, though consistent tweeting and audience engagement are key to attracting and keeping followers.

—Charlotte Abbott

Synonyms of tweet

Verb

• chirp

Examples of tweet in a Sentence

Verb

the computer tweeted again, signaling another error

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

One of the group's members provided brief live tweets on X to their 15 followers on that account. —Mark Osborne, CBS News, 19 May 2026

Karpathy has been well-known in AI for a decade, but the thing—or phrase—that etched him into AI legend was a tweet from last year. —Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 19 May 2026

Verb

No sub-tweeting, no digs in the press, just two dudes with a minor disagreement hashing it out man-to-man and then moving on. —Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu tweets that five passengers from the country were evacuated from the ship and one of them exhibited symptoms after boarding the evacuation flight. —Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026

Word History

Etymology

Noun

imitative; (sense 2) after Twitter, the former name of the X messaging service

First Known Use

Noun

1837, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1851, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing tweet

• tweet storm

Rhymes for tweet

• beat
• beet
• bleat
• cheat
• cleat
• creat
• deet
• eat
• feat
• feet
• fleet
• greet

Kids Definition

tweet

1 of 2 noun

ˈtwēt

1

: a chirping sound

2

: a post made on the Twitter online message service

tweet

2 of 2 verb

1

: chirp

2

: to post a message to the Twitter online message service