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retweet
[ ree-tweet ]
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
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
“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.
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.
In another retweet, Mangione reposted a statement praising Musk for his “commitment to long-term civilizational success.”
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.”
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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