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

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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Etymology

Origin of retweet

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

Example Sentences

Thanks to Elon Musk’s retweet, one of those deepfakes has been viewed more than 143 million times.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 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

I go in there maybe two times a week and just retweet all of them.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2023

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

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2023

The panel also said Mr Nicolson had been "unwise" to like or retweet some of the tweets in question.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2023