Tweet

== English == === Etymology 1 === Americanized spelling of either Norwegian Tveit or North German Twiete. ==== Proper noun ==== Tweet (plural Tweets) A surname. ===== Statistics ===== According to the 2010 United States Census, Tweet is the 37229th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 599 individuals. Tweet is most common among White (92.49%) individuals. ==== Further reading ==== Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Tweet”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN. === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== Tweet (plural Tweets) Alternative letter-case form of tweet (“Twitter post”). ==== Verb ==== Tweet (third-person singular simple present Tweets, present participle Tweeting, simple past and past participle Tweeted) Alternative letter-case form of tweet (“to post on Twitter”). ==== Usage notes ==== Tweet and Tweeter were the forms used by Twitter. ==== References ==== == German == === Etymology === Borrowed from English tweet. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tviːt/, (typically) [tʋiːt] Homophone: Tweed === Noun === Tweet m (strong, genitive Tweets or Tweet, plural Tweets) tweet (post to Twitter) Synonyms: Twitterbeitrag, Twittereintrag ==== Usage notes ==== Duden claims that Tweet is also used as a neuter noun. In practice, it is now almost exclusively treated as masculine. ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== Retweet tweeten Twitter twittern === Further reading === “Tweet” in Duden online “Tweet” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache