tweet

Meanings

Noun

• The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
• An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.

Verb

• To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
• To post an update to Twitter.

Interjection

• An onomatopoeic of bird singing.

Origin

• of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit, twitter.