to utter a succession of small, tremulous sounds, as a bird.
to talk lightly and rapidly, especially of trivial matters; chatter.
to titter; giggle.
to tremble with excitement or the like; be in a flutter.
Digital Technology. tweet.
(intr) (esp of a bird) to utter a succession of chirping sounds
(intr) to talk or move rapidly and tremulously
(intr) to giggle
her schoolmates twittered behind their desks
(tr) to utter in a chirping way
a twittering sound, esp of a bird
the act of twittering
a state of nervous excitement (esp in the phrase in a twitter )
1325–75; Middle English twiteren (v.); akin to German zwitschern
To twitter is to make a sound like a bird's trill or chirp. One of the nicest things about spring is the sound of birds as they twitter in the trees. Tweet tweet! When birds twitter, they make a staccato, musical chirping sound. You can call this sound itself a twitter too. Sometimes the word is used to describe a similar sound made by chattering humans. In the fourteenth century, the word was twiteren, developed from an imitation of the sound that twittering birds make. Twitter is also a social media website founded in 2006, on which people post 140-character bursts of information called tweets. Wonder where they got that idea.
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OpenAI rejected the offer and Altman subsequently posted on Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, "no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want".
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
Altman responded on X, saying, “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025
“And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” Musk posted on the site.
From Washington Times • Dec. 24, 2023
“Soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” he wrote.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023
Nearby, across the river, a lark had begun to twitter and climb.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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