retweet

American  

[ree-tweet] / riˈtwit /

verb (used with or without object)

1. to share or forward (someone else's message) on the Twitter social media service and website: I’ll only retweet if I’m also making an original comment. RT

   I laughed out loud and retweeted the meme to all of my followers.

   I’ll only retweet if I’m also making an original comment.

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noun

retweets plural

1. a message that has been shared or forwarded on Twitter: RT

   the most popular retweets.

retweet British  

verb

1. to post another user's blog the Twitter website for your own followers

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• retweets
  plural

Etymology

Origin of retweet

First recorded in 2007; re- + tweet (in the sense “message posted on Twitter”)

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

retweet retweets

Musk led his retweet with the comment “interesting thread”; if that wasn’t an explicit endorsement, it matched his way of amplifying others’ tweets, tending to give them credibility within the Musk-iverse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2024

Instead, X could simply ask users whether they really want to retweet something, making the process a little bit more cumbersome.

From Science Magazine ● May 29, 2024

Especially nowadays, when jersey-enthralled modern sports fans, social media sites and mainstream media outlets readily retweet anything masquerading as a “leak” of the newest design.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

A complex puzzle that you had to hang in, read, retweet and learn to maneuver in the effort to find your community.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2023

It mentioned Mr Farage's retweet of a Ricky Gervais joke about trans women and his friendship with tennis player Novak Djokovic, who is opposed to Covid vaccinations.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2023

Pratt is good at getting retweets, but Raman is good at getting votes in Los Angeles.

From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026

Patel repeatedly defended his behavior as “transparency,” but legal experts pointed out that his rush to get likes and retweets made prosecutors’ jobs much harder.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2025

“I do not see a lot of benefit in allowing people to send unrestricted amounts of retweets in a day,” Grinberg says.

From Science Magazine ● May 29, 2024

“Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?” the tweet said, eliciting more than 12,000 replies, 47,000 retweets and 115,500 likes by Wednesday morning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

Or a lame Twitter account where she retweets memes about the importance of hand washing.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott