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twt

/twɪt/

twt is the abbreviation of Twitter.

twt is the abbreviation of tweet.

Meaning of Twitter

Proper noun

Twitter

  1. (trademark) An online social networking and microblogging service; officially known as X since 2023.
    • There were, of course, many Twitters existing in parallel: Politics Twitter, Sports Twitter, Black Twitter, Weird Twitter. But Twitter and TV went together like extreme weather and marine predators.2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2023
    Synonyms:
    bird app, birdsite

See all 16 meanings of twitter

Meaning of tweet

Noun

tweet (plural tweets)

  1. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
    • [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. (social media) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
    • Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.2007 April 22, Jason Pontin, “Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme”, in International Herald-Tribune
  3. (broadly, social media) An entry on any microblogging service.
    • He was watching the media coverage, talking to his lawyers. And we saw that because of his tweets on Truth Social, or his posts on Truth Social.2023 August 3, Kristen Holmes, The Lead with Jake Tapper, CNN

See all 8 meanings of tweet

Noun (1) capitalized: TWT

TWT (plural TWTs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of travelling-wave tube.

Noun (2) capitalized: TWT

TWT (plural TWTs)

  1. (slang) A piece of fan fiction not set in any particular time period.

Forms of twt

Noun
pluraltwts
pluralTWTs
Verb
third-person singular presenttwts
present participletwting
past participletwted
pasttwted

Origin of twt

Abbreviation.

Short for "time? what time?". Probably modelled on earlier PWP.

Questions about twt

What does twt mean?
Twt means a piece of fan fiction not set in any particular time period.
What is twt the abbreviation of?
Twt is the abbreviation of Twitter.
What part of speech is twt?
Twt is a noun.
How do you pronounce twt?
Twt is pronounced /twɪt/.
What is the plural of twt?
The plural of twt is twts.

Words near twt in the dictionary

  1. twp
  2. Twp.
  3. twps
  4. TWs
  5. twss
  6. twt
  7. twted
  8. twting
  9. TWTR
  10. twts
  11. twttr

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: twt (page history and authors); TWT (page history and authors); Twitter (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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