tweeter

See also: Tweeter

English

Alternative forms

• (Twitter user): Tweeter

Etymology

From to tweet +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtwitɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtwiːtə/
• Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)

Noun

tweeter (plural tweeters)

1. (electronics) An electronic speaker designed to produce high-frequency sound.
2. One who or that which makes a tweeting noise.
   • 2017, Melody Styles, Heart of the Messenger (part 1)

     The little tweeter birds that had kept her company this morning were now absent, leaving nothing but the whisper of the trees as a light breeze gently wandered by.

3. (social media) One who posts messages ("tweets") on the social networking site Twitter.

   Synonyms: twitterer, (slang) tweep

   • 2013 October 31, Rowena Mason, quoting David Steel, “Lord Steel criticises culture of spin and tweeting in modern politics”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The latest addition to these daily outpourings are suggested tweets to circulate. Fortunately I am not a tweeter, so I swiftly delete all these unread.

4. (social media, by extension) A poster on a microblogging social networking service.

Translations

An electronic speaker designed to produce high-frequency sound

• Finnish: diskanttikaiutin (fi)
• French: haut-parleur d’aigus (fr) m
• Macedonian: високотонец m (visokotonec)

One who posts tweets on Twitter

• Arabic: مُغَرِّد m (muḡarrid)
• Finnish: twiittaaja
• French: twitteur (fr) m, twitteuse (fr) f, twitto (fr) m or f (colloquial)
• Galician: tuiteiro m, tuiteira f
• Georgian: ტვიტერელი (ṭviṭereli), მტვიტავი (mṭviṭavi)
• German: Twitterer m, Twitterin f
• Japanese: ツイッタラー
• Macedonian: твитерџија m (tviterdžija), твитерџика f (tviterdžika)
• Polish: twitterianin (pl) m, twitterianka (pl) f
• Portuguese: tuiteiro (pt) m, tuiteira (pt) f
• Spanish: tuitero (es) m, tuitera f
• Ukrainian: твітеря́нин (uk) m (tviterjányn), твітеря́нка (uk) f (tviterjánka)

See also

• midrange
• squawker
• subwoofer
• woofer

Anagrams

• retweet

French

Alternative forms

• twitter

Etymology

From English tweet +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (verb)
  • IPA^(key): /twi.te/

  • Audio (Paris):

    (file)

• (noun)
  • IPA^(key): /twi.tœʁ/

  • Audio (Paris):

    (file)

Verb

tweeter

1. (transitive, intransitive, Internet) to tweet (post to Twitter)
   • 2009, Francis Pisani, “Le futur « hybride » des médias”, in Le Monde Blogs:

     J’ai tweeté les idées essentielles et vous pouvez les retrouver sur @transnets.

     I have tweeted the essential ideas and you can find them on @transnets.

   • 2014, Hugo Pascual, “Vite, mes gants ! Il faut que je tweete”, in Libération:

     Quatre étudiants américains viennent de mettre au point une paire de gants équipée d’un micro vous permettant de tweeter à toute heure du jour et de la nuit [...]

     Four American students have just developed a pair of gloves fitted with a microphone allowing you to tweet at any time of the day or night [...]

Conjugation

Conjugation of tweeter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tweeter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tweetant /twi.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tweeté /twi.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tweete /twit/	tweetes /twit/	tweete /twit/	tweetons /twi.tɔ̃/	tweetez /twi.te/	tweetent /twit/
	imperfect	tweetais /twi.tɛ/	tweetais /twi.tɛ/	tweetait /twi.tɛ/	tweetions /twi.tjɔ̃/	tweetiez /twi.tje/	tweetaient /twi.tɛ/
	past historic2	tweetai /twi.te/	tweetas /twi.ta/	tweeta /twi.ta/	tweetâmes /twi.tam/	tweetâtes /twi.tat/	tweetèrent /twi.tɛʁ/
	future	tweeterai /twi.tʁe/	tweeteras /twi.tʁa/	tweetera /twi.tʁa/	tweeterons /twi.tʁɔ̃/	tweeterez /twi.tʁe/	tweeteront /twi.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tweeterais /twi.tʁɛ/	tweeterais /twi.tʁɛ/	tweeterait /twi.tʁɛ/	tweeterions /twi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	tweeteriez /twi.tə.ʁje/	tweeteraient /twi.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	tweete /twit/	tweetes /twit/	tweete /twit/	tweetions /twi.tjɔ̃/	tweetiez /twi.tje/	tweetent /twit/
	imperfect2	tweetasse /twi.tas/	tweetasses /twi.tas/	tweetât /twi.ta/	tweetassions /twi.ta.sjɔ̃/	tweetassiez /twi.ta.sje/	tweetassent /twi.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tweete /twit/	—	tweetons /twi.tɔ̃/	tweetez /twi.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Noun

tweeter m (plural tweeters)

1. tweeter (high-frequency speaker)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tweeter.

Noun

tweeter n (plural tweetere)

1. tweeter

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tweeter	tweeterul		tweetere	tweeterele
genitive-dative	tweeter	tweeterului		tweetere	tweeterelor
vocative	tweeterule			tweeterelor