tweeting
- 1Present participle and gerund of tweet. Use this -ing form when the action is happening now or named as an activity.
She is tweeting about the concert right now.
They were tweeting jokes all through the long meeting.
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- 2The act of posting short public messages on a social media site.
Like writing tiny notes that everyone can read at the same time.
Her constant tweeting kept her followers updated all day.
He gave up tweeting after the account caused too much trouble.
Similarposting, microblogging
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- 3A short, high sound, like the one a small bird makes.
Like the little chirp a bird makes in a tree.
A faint tweeting came from the smoke alarm when its battery ran low.
The cheerful tweeting of sparrows filled the garden each morning.
Similarchirping, cheeping, twittering, beeping
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tweeting is a form of tweet
tweet, verb: To post a short message on the Twitter website or app. Full entry
- Spelling
- tweet → tweeting: add -ing
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