Twitter

See also: twitter

English

Alternative forms

• (verb): twitter

Etymology

From twitter (“to utter a succession of chirps”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: twĭt'ə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈtwɪt.ə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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  • (General American) IPA^(key): [ˈtʰw̥ɪɾɚ]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)

Proper noun

Twitter

1. (trademark) An online social networking service that enables users to send and read short messages (280 characters; originally 140); officially known as X since 2023.

Derived terms

• Anitwitter
• Black Twitter
• EduTwitter
• Rose Twitter
• Stan Twitter
• TGIF
• tweep
• tweeple
• tweeps
• twetiquette
• Twibel
• twiction
• twidiot
• twimmolation
• Twiplomacy
• twitfic
• Twitler
• Twitpocalypse
• Twitterable
• Twitterati
• Twitterature
• Twitterbot
• Twitterdom
• Twitterer
• Twitterese
• Twitterfication
• Twitter freak
• Twitterism
• Twittermob
• Twitter novel
• Twitterrhea
• Twittersphere
• Twitterstorm
• Twitterverse
• Twittizen
• twoosh
• twovel
• -twt
• Weird Twitter
• Xitter

 

Related terms

• tweet, live-tweet, retweet, subtweet, tweetable (untweetable), tweetaholic, tweetdom, tweeter, tweetfest, tweetheart, tweetosphere, tweetstorm, tweetup, untweeted

Translations

online social networking service

• Arabic: تْوِيتَر (twītar)
• Armenian: Թվիթեր (Tʻvitʻer)
• Belarusian: Тві́тэр m (Tvíter)
• Bengali: টুইটার (bn) (ṭuiṭar)
• Bulgarian: Туи́тър m (Tuítǎr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 推特 (zh) (Tuītè)

• Dhivehi: ޓްޥިޓަރ (ṭwiṭar)
• Dutch: Twitter (nl) n
• Esperanto: Tvitero
• Finnish: Twitter
• French: Twitter (fr) m
• Georgian: ტვიტერი (ṭviṭeri)
• German: Twitter (de) n
• Greek: Τουίτερ (Touíter)
• Gujarati: ટ્વિટર (ṭviṭar)
• Hindi: ट्विटर m (ṭviṭar)
• Japanese: ツイッター (Tsuittā)
• Javanese: ꦛ꧀ꦮꦶꦛꦂ (thwithar)
• Kannada: ಟ್ವಿಟರ್ (ṭviṭar)
• Korean: 트위터 (Teuwiteo)
• Lithuanian: tviteris m
• Macedonian: Тви́тер m (Tvíter)
• Maori: pae tīhau
• Marathi: ट्विटर n (ṭviṭar)
• Odia: ଟ୍ୱିଟାର (ṭwiṭāra)
• Persian: توییتر (tuiter)
• Polish: Twitter (pl) m
• Portuguese: Twitter (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਟ੍ਵਿਤਰ (ṭvitar)
• Russian: Тви́ттер m (Tvíttɛr)
• Sinhalese: ට්විටර් (ṭwiṭar)
• Tamil: ட்விடர் (ṭviṭar)
• Telugu: ట్విటర్ (ṭviṭar)
• Tigrinya: ትዊተር (təwitär)
• Turkish: Twitter, X (tr)
• Ukrainian: Тві́тер m (Tvíter)
• Urdu: ٹوئٹر m (ṭviṭar)
• Welsh: Twitter m, Trydar m
• Zhuang: Duihdwz

Noun

Twitter (plural Twitters)

1. (Internet, informal) A user account belonging to the above service.

   I've lost the password to my Twitter.

2. (Internet, informal, usually in combination) A community on Twitter.

   Synonym: -twt (suffix)

   • 2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     There were, of course, many Twitters existing in parallel: Politics Twitter, Sports Twitter, Black Twitter, Weird Twitter. But Twitter and TV went together like extreme weather and marine predators.

Translations

user account

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 推特賬戶／推特账户 (tuītè zhànghù)

• Finnish: Twitter-tili
• Portuguese: Twitter (pt) m

Verb

Twitter (third-person singular simple present Twitters, present participle Twittering, simple past and past participle Twittered)

1. (transitive, intransitive, Internet, sometimes proscribed) To tweet; to post an update to Twitter.
   • 2009 March 2, Justin Rebello, “Eight top-notch tips for the Twittering attorney"”, in Wisconsin Law Journal‎^[2], retrieved 2 March 2009:

     Eight top-notch tips for the Twittering attorney

   • 2009 February 23, MSNBC, “Stars can’t stop Twittering at Oscars, parties”, in Access Hollywood‎^[3], retrieved 2 March 2009:

     Stars can’t stop Twittering at Oscars, parties

Synonyms

• tweet

Translations

tweet — see tweet

See also

• Category:en:Twitter

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English Twitter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtvɪtər/, [ˈtʋɪtɐ]

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Twitter n (proper noun, strong, genitive Twitter)

1. (Internet) Twitter

Declension

Declension of Twitter [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Twitter
genitive	eines	des	Twitter
dative	einem	dem	Twitter
accusative	ein	das	Twitter

Derived terms

• twittern

Related terms

• Tweet

Further reading

• “Twitter” in Duden online

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Twitter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtwi.tɛr/
• Rhymes: -itɛr
• Syllabification: Twi‧tter

Proper noun

Twitter m inan

1. Twitter

Declension

Declension of Twitter

	singular
nominative	Twitter
genitive	Twittera
dative	Twitterowi
accusative	Twitter
instrumental	Twitterem
locative	Twitterze
vocative	Twitterze

Related terms

nouns

• alkotweet
• tweet

 

verb

• tweetować impf

 

Further reading

• Twitter in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English Twitter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtwɪtər/

Proper noun

Twitter m

1. (Internet) Twitter

   Synonym: Trydar

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
Twitter	Dwitter	Nhwitter	Thwitter
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.