retweet
See also: Retweet
English
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[edit]retweet (third-person singular simple present retweets, present participle retweeting, simple past and past participle retweeted)
- (Twitter) To repost or forward another user's message on the microblogging social networking website Twitter.
- 2009, Geert Conard, Friends with Benefits, Networking in a New Economy:
- Because your messages will be relevant to them, they are much more likely to retweet your messages and recommend that other people follow you on Twitter.
- 2023 February 3, Pia Ceres, “Quoting Taylor Swift Lyrics Is an Actual Linguistic Thing”, in Wired[1], San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-19:
- And the web—particularly social media—provides countless opportunities for intertextuality, chances to recontextualize, retweet, repost, riposte.
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[edit]repost or forward a Twitter message
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Noun
[edit]retweet (plural retweets)
- (Twitter) A message reposted or forwarded in this way.
- 2011, Dave Wooldridge, Michael Schneider, The Business of iPhone and iPad App Development, page 339:
- You know it's an iPhone or iPad app, but those new to you, who came via a retweet or Twitter search, may not know which platform your app supports.
- 2013, Daxton Stewart, Social Media and the Law, page 42:
- According to Stewart's analysis, current case law makes it unlikely a retweeter would be held liable for a defamatory retweet […]
- 2018, Ling Ma, chapter 2, in Severance, →ISBN:
- The sheer density of information and misinformation at the End, encapsulated in news articles and message-board theories and clickbait traps that had propagated hysterically through retweets and shares, had effectively rendered us more ignorant, more helpless, more innocent in our stupidity.
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[edit]message reposted or forwarded
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[edit]Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: re‧tweet
Noun
[edit]retweet m (plural retweets, diminutive retweetje n)
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[edit]retweet m (plural retweets)
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