tweeter

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English

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From to tweet +‎ -er.

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tweeter (plural tweeters)

  1. (electronics) An electronic speaker designed to produce high-frequency sound.
  2. One who or that which makes a tweeting noise.
    • 2017, Melody Styles, Heart of the Messenger (part 1)
      The little tweeter birds that had kept her company this morning were now absent, leaving nothing but the whisper of the trees as a light breeze gently wandered by.
  3. (social media) One who posts messages ("tweets") on the social networking site Twitter.
    Synonyms: twitterer, (slang) tweep
    • 2013 October 31, Rowena Mason, quoting David Steel, “Lord Steel criticises culture of spin and tweeting in modern politics”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      The latest addition to these daily outpourings are suggested tweets to circulate. Fortunately I am not a tweeter, so I swiftly delete all these unread.
  4. (social media, by extension) A poster on a microblogging social networking service.

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Etymology

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From English tweet +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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  • (verb)
    • IPA(key): /twi.te/
    • Audio (Paris):(file)
  • (noun)

Verb

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tweeter

  1. (transitive, intransitive, Internet) to tweet (post to Twitter)
    • 2009, Francis Pisani, “Le futur « hybride » des médias”, in Le Monde Blogs:
      J’ai tweeté les idées essentielles et vous pouvez les retrouver sur @transnets.
      I have tweeted the essential ideas and you can find them on @transnets.
    • 2014, Hugo Pascual, “Vite, mes gants ! Il faut que je tweete”, in Libération:
      Quatre étudiants américains viennent de mettre au point une paire de gants équipée d’un micro vous permettant de tweeter à toute heure du jour et de la nuit [...]
      Four American students have just developed a pair of gloves fitted with a microphone allowing you to tweet at any time of the day or night [...]

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tweeter m (plural tweeters)

  1. tweeter (high-frequency speaker)

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English tweeter.

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tweeter n (plural tweetere)

  1. tweeter

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