"Tweet" definition, meaning, and origin

Proper noun

Americanized spelling of either Norwegian Tveit or North German Twiete.

Alternative letter-case form of tweet (“Twitter post”).
- 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. -...
- Julia Thompson will be sending out news Tweets ([…]) and I’ll be keeping you updated with cool calendar Tweets ([…]). - 2008 August 15, Lyssa Oberkreser, “Tweets have got her all a-Twitter”, in Tallahassee Democrat,...
- 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...

Alternative letter-case form of tweet (“to post on Twitter”).
- Girls want pictures with him; guys dress like him for Halloween; more than 500 people “Tweet” his whereabouts on the social networking Web site. - 2009 April 1, Ofelia Casillas, “All a-Twitter over ‘Tamale Guy’”, in...
- His comment galvanized fiscally conservative Democrats to support the president’s bill and heightened the sense of despondency among those Republican congressmen and senators who BBMed and Tweeted on their BlackBerries...
- He [Brandon Marshall] also Tweeted that he would earmark $1 million to mental-health research, which is significant to Marshall, having been diagnosed in 2012 with borderline-personality disorder. - 2014 May 20,...