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Meaning of retweet in English:

retweet

Pronunciation /riːˈtwiːt/

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verb

[with object]

  • (on the social media application Twitter) repost or forward (a message posted by another user)

    ‘tweet the URL of your posting: people love to retweet job ads’
    • ‘On Twitter you could watch the times your content is retweeted.’
    • ‘First, don't hesitate to ask people to retweet your tweet.’
    • ‘The success or failure of a joke can soon be gauged by the number of times it is retweeted.’
    • ‘Believe it or not, stuff like this gets retweeted.’
    • ‘If anyone retweets or answers, then all their connections, friends and followers could also forward it on.’
    • ‘The ads will be confined to Twitter's standard 140-character limit so they can be passed along, or "retweeted," to other users.’
    • ‘I think that retweeting is true social networking.’
    • ‘The goal is that the link takes people to something that's enlightening or entertaining, and they thank you by retweeting it.’
    • ‘Users retweeted his tweet and added their own new tweets.’
    • ‘You can tweet, reply, retweet, send direct messages, browse users, post compressed links, view Twitter trends, and more.’
    • ‘If you find a blog post or new item about Twitter, tweet it, and it will probably get retweeted.’
    • ‘Armstrong's Twitter followers are now 'retweeting' the message and soon almost everybody involved with the Tour of California will be on the lookout for Armstrong's machine.’
    • ‘Second, spammers may retweet and change legitimate links to illegitimate ones, the process of which is obfuscated by URL shorteners.’
    • ‘Countless people "retweeted" the updates from the mountain, others expressed real concern when things went quiet, and many, many more expressed their heart-felt sorrow when the worst was confirmed.’
    • ‘Moore said she was torn about responding or retweeting that woman's post but felt uncomfortable just letting it go’
    • ‘A few additional features are built on top of this simple premise: users who approve (or disapprove) of another user's tweet can retweet them or favorite them (with annotations) providing a measure of popularity for the tweets.’
    • ‘Include direct links to your products so that people interested can retweet and don't forget the hashtag that tells followers and non-followers what your product niche is.’
    • ‘Retweet or share this with your marathon running friends if you think they would like it.’
    • ‘I re-tweeted his question and got some great responses.’
    • ‘You can never take it back because you never know if someone is going to see it or re-tweet it or download it and then repost it.’

noun

  • A reposted or forwarded message on Twitter.

    ‘traffic spiked quickly and contained a mix of retweets and original posts’
    • ‘Hopefully I've convinced you that frequent retweets is a salient goal.’
    • ‘My Twitter account mostly consists of retweets from other twitterers.’
    • ‘Thus, the best measure of someone's quality as a Twitter user is not the number of followers but the amount of retweets.’
    • ‘Traffic spiked quickly and contained a mix of retweets and original posts, mostly sexual jokes of varying quality.’
    • ‘Brown also dominates in the number of retweets.’
    • ‘When I personally tweeted about some content from them a few months back, I saw great responses on Twitter, more retweets and more followers.’
    • ‘If you're monitoring online conversations you should also capture the relative direction of inbound and outbound links, or look at patterns with retweets of our content.’
    • ‘Though it's still quite rare for people to make a comment on a piece in a tweet; more usually it's a "retweet", echoing the headline.’
    • ‘My tweet received one retweet and no @ responses.’
    • ‘In addition, fast loading pages are, in my opinion, considerably more likely to earn links, retweets and other forms of sharing than their slow-loading peers.’
    • ‘If I was mining Twitter I wouldn't pay any attention at all to tweets, but I would pay a lot of attention to retweets.’
    • ‘You can read through all the retweets and responses by looking at the Twitter search for "InTheStimulus".’
    • ‘They created a leader board with logos for the three parties moving on small wires each time a re-tweet was registered.’
    • ‘A message like this is particularily nasty, as there were plenty of re-tweets of this malicious message sent by genuine users.’