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

Then Rowan shared similar documents about a local film critic — he’d posted a “snarky” retweet of the Tribune writer — and about a student reporter at Southern Utah University.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025

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

When Arthanayake asked whether Gervais had read the petition, he side-stepped the question, quipping, “Good luck — I’ll even retweet it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

They include the ability to tweet, retweet, like posts and reply to posts.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2023

For now, we still tweet, retweet and quote tweet, and sometimes — perhaps not often enough — delete tweets.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

You can get a lot of retweets by referring to the “land of the free” with bald eagle and American flag emojis as you drive over the bridge from Canada.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

The fox8 bots created fake engagement with each other and with human accounts through realistic back-and-forth discussions and retweets.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026

“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

The post has since garnered thousands of retweets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

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

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott