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tweeting

tweeting is the present participle and gerund of tweet.

Noun

tweeting (plural tweetings)

  1. A noise that tweets.
    • She was said to have appeared there in the form of a calf one evening when a piper, Laurence Hoolahan, would not stop annoying her with his ceaseless drunken tweetings.2004, Patricia Monaghan, The encyclopedia of Celtic mythology and folklore, page 274
  2. (Internet) The posting of tweets (microblogging messages)

Meaning of tweet

Verb

tweet (third-person singular simple present tweets, present participle tweeting, simple past and past participle tweeted)

  1. (intransitive) To produce a short high-pitched sound, similar to that of certain birds.
    • [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.1934 April 7, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 104
  2. (ambitransitive, social media) To post an entry to Twitter.
    • In Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative societies, one online rebel has rocked the Islamic establishment with tweeted allegations of corruption within the ruling royal family.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian
  3. (ambitransitive, broadly, social media) To post an entry to any microblogging site.
    • In response to the motion, Trump tweeted on Truth Social2023 September 17, Lou Kettering, “Federal prosecutors in DC 2020 election interference case request order to prohibit Trump making ‘inflammatory’ and ‘misleading’ statements”, in Jurist

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Verb capitalized: Tweeting

Tweeting

  1. (gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of Tweet

Forms of tweeting

pluraltweetings

Phrases with tweeting

Questions about tweeting

What does tweeting mean?
Tweeting means a noise that tweets.
What is tweeting the present participle and gerund of?
Tweeting is the present participle and gerund of tweet.
What part of speech is tweeting?
Tweeting can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of tweeting?
The plural of tweeting is tweetings.

Words near tweeting in the dictionary

  1. tweeters
  2. tweetfest
  3. tweetfests
  4. tweetheart
  5. tweethearts
  6. tweeting
  7. tweetings
  8. tweetless
  9. tweetosphere
  10. tweets
  11. tweetstorm

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tweeting (page history and authors); Tweeting (page history and authors); tweet (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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