Twitter

See also: twitter

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Twitter

Wikipedia

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
• Twatter
• 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

Descendants

• → Chinese: 推特 (Tuītè)
• → Dutch: Twitter
• → German: Twitter
• → French: Twitter
• → Georgian: ტვიტერი (ṭviṭeri)
• → Italian: Twitter
• → Japanese: ツイッター
• → Korean: 트위터 (teuwiteo)
• → Norwegian: Twitter
• → Polish: Twitter
• → Portuguese: Twitter
• → Russian: Тви́ттер (Tvítter)
• → Spanish: Twitter
• → Ukrainian: Тві́тер (Tvíter)

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:

     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, 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, 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

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

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

Derived terms

• twittern

Related terms

• Tweet

Further reading

• “Twitter” in Duden online

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Twitter

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Twitter.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Twitter m inan

1. Twitter

Declension

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

Declension of Twitter

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

Mutated forms of Twitter

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
Twitter	Dwitter	Nhwitter	Thwitter

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.