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Tweet vs Tweep - What's the difference?

tweet | tweep |

As nouns the difference between tweet and tweep

is that tweet is the sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle while tweep is a chirp or beep.

As verbs the difference between tweet and tweep

is that tweet is to make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds while tweep is to chirp or beep.

tweet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
  • (Internet) An entry posted on the microblogging service .
  • * {{quote-news, 2007, April 22, Jason Pontin, Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme, International Herald-Tribune citation
    • , passage=Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.}}
  • * 2008 , Wendy Chisholm, Matthew May, Universal Design for Web Applications
    • For example, as you edit a tweet in Twitter, the number of characters left is updated as you type.
  • * 2008 , Chris Seibold, Big Book of Apple Hacks
    • A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone...

    Verb

  • To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
  • (ambitransitive, Internet) To post an update to .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=In Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative societies, one online rebel has rocked the Islamic establishment with tweeted allegations of corruption within the ruling royal family.}}

    Derived terms

    * retweet * tweetup * tweeter

    External links

    * '>citation

    See also

    * twitter * English onomatopoeias ----

    tweep

    English

    Etymology 1

    Onomatopoeic.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A chirp or beep.
  • * 1995 , John Wynne, The Listener's Guide to Audio Books: Reviews, Recommendations, and Listings for More Than 2,000 Titles , Fireside (1995), ISBN 0684802392, page 321:
    • The readers are Star Trek'' cast members, and the sound is enhanced with authentic, ''Enterprise -sounding beeps and tweeps .
  • * 2008 , Eric W. Bragg, The Midnight Blade of Sonic Honey , Oyster Moon Press (2008), ISBN 9781435714281, page 106:
    • Many of the neighboring birds had already begun their preliminary chirps, sending out those quirky little twits and tweeps that announce their presence
  • *

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To chirp or beep.
  • * 1996 , , A New Day Rising , Bethany House Publishers (1996), ISBN 9780764201929, unnumbered page:
    • A bird tweeped and twittered on a thistle by the side of the trail.
  • * 1999 , , Steps and Exes: A Novel of Family , Bard (1999), ISBN 9780380977673, page 103:
    • No ubiquitous telephones, no fax machines or computers burping and tweeping and chirping their electronic chirps.
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    • Etymology 2

    From TWEP , acronym of (terminate with extreme prejudice), a US military intelligence and CIA euphemism for "kill, assassinate" that was first used in the 1960s.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (US, intelligence, euphemistic) To kill; to assassinate.
  • * 1997 , , Vendetta!: Fidel Castro and the Kennedy Brothers , John Wiley (1997), ISBN 9780471184560:
    • Robert Maheu, tough, astute, dynamic, was the perfect professional to implement the CIA scheme to tweep Fidel Castro.
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    • Etymology 3

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    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (Internet, slang) A user.
  • * 2011 , (writing as God), The Last Testament: A Memoir , Simon & Schuster (2011), ISBN 9781451640182, page 305:
    • As astute tweeps will observe, I myself only follow one other person, the one thou callest "Justin Bieber";
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    • English onomatopoeias