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

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Etymology

Origin of retweet

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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

retweet retweets

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

Hochman did not innocently retweet a video he happened to see online.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 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

Pratt had more retweets and viral videos than any other candidate, Mitchell said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Social videos, memes and retweets are becoming fodder for criminal charges in an era of heightened responses to student threats.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025

“Someone says something on social media, Musk retweets it, Rogan podcasts it, Fox broadcasts it, and by the time it reaches everybody, millions of people have seen it.”

From Slate ● Mar. 8, 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

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

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

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