Tweet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tweets
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2008 May 31, Jessica Guynn, “Contest inspires few words”, in Los Angeles Times, page C3:
text: Julia Thompson will be sending out news Tweets ([…]) and I’ll be keeping you updated with cool calendar Tweets ([…]).
ref: 2008 August 15, Lyssa Oberkreser, “Tweets have got her all a-Twitter”, in Tallahassee Democrat, 103rd year, number 228, page 3B:
text: Twitter, if you’re not familiar with it, is a form of micro-blogging, which allows users to send very short updates on what they’re doing to anyone interested to receive them and last week several “Tweets” – as the Twitter postings are called – started appearing in the BBC’s coverage.[…]Given that several “Tweets” instructively contradicted the official line on what was happening you might argue that this enlistment of an army of virtual stringers improved the BBC’s coverage. But that argument wouldn’t take account of the subtle alteration of trust that takes place when you read coverage that cuts and pastes random “Tweets” alongside more conventional forms of BBC journalism.
ref: 2008 December 2, Tom Sutcliffe, “Twittering on is not the way to provide news”, in The Independent, number 6,906, page 31:
text: The 34-year-old Fallon has also become a prolific Twitterer (yes, it really is him sending Tweets from his iPhone).
ref: 2009 March 2, Kevin Pang, “@JimmyFallon wants you to follow him”, in Chicago Tribune, 162nd year, number 61, section 3, page 1:
text: 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.
ref: 2009 March 15, Corilyn Shropshire, “Twitter: When is it too much?”, in The Marshall News Messenger, volume 131, number 287, page 2B:
text: I don’t doubt the time- and hassle-saving example, but my guess is that for every one of those there are 999 Tweets about going to the mall or going to see friends or going to see friends at the mall.[…]Twitterers join lists of people they want to follow (not my word, but I like it), and if they follow 15 people who send out five Tweets each, that’s a lot of techno-sludge to wade through every day.[…]Most of the politicians who aren’t boring are offensive, and any journalist who can tell a story in 140 characters—that’s the maximum Tweet length—isn’t writing about anything that interests me.
ref: 2009 March 25, Jack Cowan, “Not falling for Twitter mania”, in San Angelo Standard-Times, page A4:
text: Demi’s Tweets help save woman[…]As the law of probabilities would dictate, Demi Moore’s millions of Tweets have finally saved a human life.
ref: 2009 April 6, Suzanne Condie Lambert, “Demi’s Tweets help save woman”, in The Arizona Republic, 119th year, number 323, page D6:
text: The heart of the matter is this: feminism’s been hijacked by the dark forces of judginess, by our communally created fear that our every deed, word, thought, joke and Tweet is being monitored for fuck ups.
ref: 2015, Polly Vernon, “Feminist Fatigue, Fit Shame and FOGIW”, in Hot Feminist: Modern Feminism with Style without Judgement, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, part 1 (Non-Judgement Day), page 31:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of tweet (“Twitter post”).