twitter
verb (used without object)
to utter a succession of small, tremulous sounds, as a bird.
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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But for weeks Manhattan's literary gossip has been twittering with the news that John Updike's Rabbit at Rest, which will be published in October, concludes with the death of its hero.
From Time Magazine Archive
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