retweet
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.73 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To repost or forward another user's message on the microblogging social networking website Twitter.
Intransitive verb; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Because your messages will be relevant to them, they are much more likely to retweet your messages and recommend that other people follow you on Twitter."
- "And the web—particularly social media—provides countless opportunities for intertextuality, chances to recontextualize, retweet, repost, riposte."
- "On Friday, it urged followers: “Retweet if you believe that Trump & his cronies are lying to the public and treating us like we’re stupid. We won’t be fooled by their games.”"
- "You know it's an iPhone or iPad app, but those new to you, who came via a retweet or Twitter search, may not know which platform your app supports."
- "According to Stewart's analysis, current case law makes it unlikely a retweeter would be held liable for a defamatory retweet […]"
- "The sheer density of information and misinformation at the End, encapsulated in news articles and message-board theories and clickbait traps that had propagated hysterically through retweets and shares, had effectively rendered us more ignorant, more helpless, more innocent in our stupidity."
Etymology
From re- + tweet.