Meaning & use
Tweeting
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Posting short messages on the social media platform Twitter (now called X).
See it in a sentence
She spent the evening tweeting live updates from the concert.
The birds outside kept tweeting cheerfully at dawn.
A note on using this word
The verb existed long before social media, originally describing a bird's short, high-pitched call; Twitter borrowed the word deliberately in 2006.
Words with a similar meaning
postingchirping
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Another way to use it
2. verb
Of a bird, making short, high-pitched chirping sounds.
A sparrow sat on the windowsill, tweeting softly.
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