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mistweet

mistweet noun: a tweet (message sent on X or (formerly) Twitter) that should not have been sent, such as one that is inappropriate, embarrassing, sent in error, etc.

Noun

mistweet (plural mistweets)

  1. A tweet (message sent on X or (formerly) Twitter) that should not have been sent, such as one that is inappropriate, embarrassing, sent in error, etc.
    • The job offer was withdrawn and 'Cisco Fatty' became a legendary mistweet and a cautionary tale for all those who blurt out such thoughts without setting their account to private.2012, Tim Collins, The Little Book of Twitter: Get Tweetwise!
    • In a fit of pique, woman at the National Theatre responded with a stunningly inappropriate mistweet, calling Norris a four-letter word.2012, Beth Kanter, Katie Delahaye Paine, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, page 177

Verb

mistweet (third-person singular simple present mistweets, present participle mistweeting, simple past and past participle mistweeted)

  1. To send a mistweet.
    • Even if you press Delete seconds after you've mistweeted, someone somewhere may have taken a screen shot.2013, Aliza Sherman, Danielle Elliott Smith, Social Media Engagement For Dummies
    • Having mistweeted some months earlier, Westpac sympathetically responded, 'Hey @nab know the feeling'.2014, Sandra Moriarty, Nancy D. Mitchell, William D. Wells, Advertising: Principles and Practice, page 43

Examples of mistweet in a sentence

  • The dangers of a mistweet or a mea culpa “about Face” on Facebook are not limited to business owners or senior executives with impaired public relations skills.2014, Harvey Thompson, Who Stole My Customer??, page 157:
  • If you mistweet, misfire or misrepresent then take the time to think of an appropriate response.2014, Deborah Gonzalez, Managing Online Risk: Apps, Mobile, and Social Media Security, page 66:

Forms of mistweet

Noun
pluralmistweets
Verb
third-person singular presentmistweets
present participlemistweeting
past participlemistweeted
pastmistweeted

Origin of mistweet

From mis- + tweet.

Questions about mistweet

What does mistweet mean?
Mistweet means a tweet (message sent on X or (formerly) Twitter) that should not have been sent, such as one that is inappropriate, embarrassing, sent in error, etc.
How do you use mistweet in a sentence?
The dangers of a mistweet or a mea culpa “about Face” on Facebook are not limited to business owners or senior executives with impaired public relations skills.
What part of speech is mistweet?
Mistweet can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of mistweet?
The plural of mistweet is mistweets.

Words near mistweet in the dictionary

  1. misturns
  2. mistutor
  3. mistutored
  4. mistutoring
  5. mistutors
  6. mistweet
  7. mistweeted
  8. mistweeting
  9. mistweets
  10. mistwist
  11. mistwisted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mistweet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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