tweet

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  1. noun A weak chirping sound, as of a young or small bird.
  2. intransitive verb To utter a weak chirping sound.

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  • Yes, the point of the tweet is the link and, yes, I follow some people because they are experts at finding compelling content on the Web that I probably care about.
  • And of course we know what the body of the tweet was and we can interpret it as a silly message sent by a drunkard, an act of showing off, a genuine message to friends, a piece of introspective meandering … the possibilities are many and various.
  • The founders of the service will tell you a tweet is there to answer the question “What are you doing?” – the other Kipling questions are incidentally answered by the technology and the ‘why’ will always be subject to interpretation.
  • Ultimately, whatever gets used more will probably win out but my personal thought is that Twittering is the verb that refers to the act of creating a tweet which is the noun. —  Inc.com
  • One example of this new ad opportunity would be a local newspaper that tweets a headline with a link to the full article; at the end of the tweet is an ad from the Adjix network, giving the newspaper a new way to earn revenue.
 

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