tweetとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtwiːt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈtwit/
• 韻: -iːt

名詞

tweet (plural tweets)

1. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
   • 1934 April 7, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 104:

     [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.

2. (social media) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter. [since 2007]

   Alternative form: Tweet

   • 2007 April 22, Jason Pontin, “Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme”, in International Herald-Tribune‎:

     Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.

   • 2008, Wendy Chisholm, Matthew May, Universal Design for Web Applications:

     For example, as you edit a tweet in Twitter, the number of characters left is updated as you type.

   • 2008, Chris Seibold, Big Book of Apple Hacks:

     A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone […]

3. (social media, by extension) An entry on any microblogging service.
   • 2023 August 3, Kristen Holmes, The Lead with Jake Tapper‎, CNN:

     He was watching the media coverage, talking to his lawyers. And we saw that because of his tweets on Truth Social, or his posts on Truth Social.

動詞

tweet (third-person singular simple present tweets, present participle tweeting, simple past tweeted or (Internet, nonstandard) twote, past participle tweeted or (Internet, nonstandard) twote or (Internet, nonstandard) twoten)

1. (intransitive) To produce a short high-pitched sound, similar to that of certain birds.
   • 1934 April 7, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 104:

     [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.

2. (ambitransitive, social media) To post an entry to Twitter. [since 2007]

   Alternative form: Tweet

   • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian‎:

     In Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative societies, one online rebel has rocked the Islamic establishment with tweeted allegations of corruption within the ruling royal family.

   • 2017 January 25, “Donald Trump: 'We will build Mexico border wall'”, in BBC World Service‎, retrieved 25 January 2017:

     =Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"

   • 2024 February 7, Christian Wolmar, “LNER's crazy idea will price more people off the railway”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 44:

     First, an apology. Tweet in haste and repent at leisure. When I first heard about the idea, before I had properly examined it, I actually tweeted that this was [a] welcome 'innovation' from a state-controlled train operator.

3. (ambitransitive, social media, by extension) To post an entry to any microblogging site.
   • 2023 September 17, Lou Kettering, “Federal prosecutors in DC 2020 election interference case request order to prohibit Trump making ‘inflammatory’ and ‘misleading’ statements”, in Jurist‎:

     In response to the motion, Trump tweeted on Truth Social

   • 2024 April 17, Doktor Zoom, “New York Times Joins Chris Rufo In Mean Girls Finger-Snapping At NPR CEO”, in Wonkette‎:

     As Georgetown public policy prof Dan Moynihan tweeted on Bluesky yesterday, the editors of the Times “are not falling for [Rufo’s] game, they are co-producing it.”

派生語

関連する語

間投詞

tweet

1. used to represent the sound of a bird twittering: twit.
   • 1977, David Byrne, “Love → Building On Fire”, in Talking Heads: 77, performed by Talking Heads:

     I've got two loves / And they go tweet (×9) like little birds

参考

• twitter
• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

参照

Further reading

• tweet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “'Tweet' 2009 Word of the Year, 'Google' Word of the Decade, as voted by American Dialect Society”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, American Dialect Society, 8 January 2010