Tweet vs Twit - What's the difference?

Twit is a synonym of tweet.

As nouns the difference between tweet and twit

is that tweet is the sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle while twit is a reproach, gibe or taunt.

As verbs the difference between tweet and twit

is that tweet is to make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds while twit is to reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.

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

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twit

English

Verb

(twitt)

To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.

* 1590 , Shakespeare. History of Henry VI , Part II, Act III, Scene I

"Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here

With ignominious words, though clerkly couch'd,

As if she had suborned some to swear

False allegations to o'erthrow his state? " -

* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 106:

Mr. Cramer, a policeman, came this morning and twitted me for having let a murderer hoodwink me.

* 2007 , Bernard Porter, "Did He Puff his Crimes to Please a Bloodthirsty Readership?", review of Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer'' by Tim Jeal, ''London Review of Books , 5 April, 29:7, p. 10

H. R. Fox Bourne, secretary of the Aborigines' Protection Society – often twitted for being an ‘armchair critic’ – wrote in a review of one of Stanley's books

* Tillotson

This these scoffers twitted the Christian with.

* L'Estrange

Aesop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is amiss.

(computing) To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system).

* 1995 , "Michelle Jackson", Debutante/Question about Tori Shirts'' (on newsgroup ''rec.music.tori-amos )

However, on the Internet BBS's such as Quartz (now dead), Prism, Monsoon, Sunset, ect(SIC), someone pulling that kind of crap is likely to get flamed quite fast and twitted before he/she can breathe.

* 2002 , "Chris Hoppman", FidoNet Feed Needed'' (on newsgroup ''alt.bbs )

And no, there is no "thought purification program" that can filter out some folks(SIC) obscene ideas that can be expressed w/o written vulgarities. That has to be simply "dealt" with, either by ignoring or twitting the individual that offends habitually.

Noun

(en noun)

A reproach, gibe or taunt.

A foolish or annoying person.

* (rfdate) (Larry Kramer), Just Say No

What do you mean, since when did I become such a radical fairy? Since I started knowing twits' like you, you ' twit !

Usage notes

In the UK and UK English-speaking areas, usually used in a humorous or affectionate manner.

Derived terms

* (l)

Synonyms

* See also