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retweet

[ ree-tweet ]

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to share or forward (someone else's message) on the Twitter social media service and website: I’ll only retweet if I’m also making an original comment. : RT

    I laughed out loud and retweeted the meme to all of my followers.

    I’ll only retweet if I’m also making an original comment.



noun

  1. a message that has been shared or forwarded on Twitter: : RT

    the most popular retweets.

retweet

verb

  1. to post another user's blog the Twitter website for your own followers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of retweet1

First recorded in 2007; re- + tweet (in the sense “message posted on Twitter”)
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Example Sentences

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Then Rowan shared similar documents about a local film critic — he’d posted a “snarky” retweet of the Tribune writer — and about a student reporter at Southern Utah University.

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In another retweet, Mangione reposted a statement praising Musk for his “commitment to long-term civilizational success.”

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One of Mangione’s final posts was a retweet of a video of Thiel discussing how many of the “great startups seem to be run by people who seem to be suffering from a mild form of Asperger's.”

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Musk led his retweet with the comment “interesting thread”; if that wasn’t an explicit endorsement, it matched his way of amplifying others’ tweets, tending to give them credibility within the Musk-iverse.

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Next, at 16:23, an online news website based in India called Upuknews shared a retweet of Eddie Murray’s post, which it described as “confirmed”.

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