RETWEET Definition & Meaning

retweet

[ ree-tweet ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with or without object)

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

a message that has been shared or forwarded on Twitter: : RT
the most popular retweets.

retweet

verb

to post another user's blog the Twitter website for your own followers

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of retweet¹

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

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“Worse,” the judge wrote, the government “defied the court’s order deliberately and gleefully,” citing Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s retweet of a post by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele boasting of the disobedience.

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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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