live-tweet
live-tweet verb: to provide real-time updates or commentary on an event in progress through Twitter posts.
Verb
live-tweet (third-person singular simple present live-tweets, present participle live-tweeting, simple past and past participle live-tweeted)
- To provide real-time updates or commentary on an event in progress through Twitter posts.
- Or maybe, like Stern, you can live-tweet comments about a television show as it is broadcast.2011, David Meerman Scott, The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly, John Wiley...
- Realizing the need he had discovered—no record of the General Assembly's proceedings had to that point existed on Twitter—he returned the next night to live-tweet the whole event.2011, Writers for the 99%, Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America, OR Books, →ISBN, page 84
Examples of live-tweet in a sentence
- We weren't planning to live-tweet the birth, but we felt in that moment that we needed the power of prayer.2013, Kelsey Williams, “Rooney's Birth Story”, in Parenting, Uncensored: Straight Talk from Real Moms on Giving Birth, →ISBN:
- Lately, Elon Musk also likes to live-tweet his poops.December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine, archived from...
Forms of live-tweet
| third-person singular present | live-tweets |
|---|---|
| present participle | live-tweeting |
| past participle | live-tweeted |
| past | live-tweeted |
| alternative form | live tweet |
| alternative form | livetweet |
Origin of live-tweet
From live + tweet.
Questions about live-tweet
- What does live-tweet mean?
- Live-tweet means to provide real-time updates or commentary on an event in progress through Twitter posts.
- How do you use live-tweet in a sentence?
- We weren't planning to live-tweet the birth, but we felt in that moment that we needed the power of prayer.
- What part of speech is live-tweet?
- Live-tweet is a verb.
- What is the past tense of live-tweet?
- The past tense of live-tweet is live-tweeted.
Words near live-tweet in the dictionary
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