retweet

verbB1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — tweet sits at #8,974neutral

Other forms: retweeted, retweets, retweeting

To retweet is to pass somebody else's post on to your own followers. Retweet the post, thousands of retweets, retweets are not endorsements.

Retweets are not endorsements became the standard disclaimer in profiles, and courts have not always agreed. The feature was invented by users writing RT by hand before the site built it in.

Definitions of retweet

1verbretweetTo pass somebody else's post on to your own followers.B1
“She retweeted the news story so that all her followers could read it.”

retweet is a sharing.

Where it comes from

Re-, again, plus tweet, from the name of the posts on the site.

From re- + tweet.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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retweet

verbB1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — tweet sits at #8,974neutral

Other forms: retweeted, retweets, retweeting

To retweet is to pass somebody else's post on to your own followers. Retweet the post, thousands of retweets, retweets are not endorsements.

Retweets are not endorsements became the standard disclaimer in profiles, and courts have not always agreed. The feature was invented by users writing RT by hand before the site built it in.

Definitions of retweet

1verbretweetTo pass somebody else's post on to your own followers.B1
“She retweeted the news story so that all her followers could read it.”

retweet is a sharing.

Where it comes from

Re-, again, plus tweet, from the name of the posts on the site.

From re- + tweet.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA