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Youtube vs Twitter - What's the difference?

youtube | twitter |

As nouns the difference between youtube and twitter

is that youtube is any website that allows users to upload content, particularly YouTube itself while twitter is the sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.

As verbs the difference between youtube and twitter

is that youtube is to upload a video of something to YouTube while twitter is to utter a succession of chirps.

As a proper noun YouTube

is a video-sharing website.

youtube

English

(wikipedia YouTube)

Alternative forms

* youtube

Noun

(en noun)
  • (neologism) Any website that allows users to upload content, particularly itself.
  • * {{quote-book, 2007, title=Academic librarianship by design, author=Steven J. Bell, John D. Shank
    • , passage=None of this is to suggest that academic libraries should turn their websites into a YouTube or Facebook in which our user communities would create all the content,
  • * {{quote-book, 2008, title=Web 2.0 Heroes, author=Bradley L. Jones
    • , passage=There is all kinds of stuff that people post there- some of it is entertaining, some is actually useful as a template for studying or for business...it is sort of like a YouTube for documents.}}
  • (neologism) A small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on .
  • * {{quote-book, 2007, IPhone Fully Loaded, author=Andy Ihnatko
    • , passage=Then it's a YouTube of some kid trying to play "Radar Love" on a cheap guitar using only his feet,
  • * {{quote-journal, 2009, title=Bring me the Horizon, journal=Revolver, date=March, author=Valerie McQueen
    • , passage=Not too long ago, there was a YouTube of you two brawling. How did the musical collaboration happen?}}

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A video-sharing website.

    • Derived terms

    * Youtuber * YouTubular

    Verb

    (YouTub)
  • (neologism) To upload a video of something to .
  • * 2007 , "Why YouTube gets my vote for political punditry", Guardian Unlimited , Feb 5, 2007
    • The revolution will not be televised. It will be YouTubed .

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "YouTube") ----

    twitter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
    • I often listen to the twitter of the birds in the park.
  • Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
  • * 1986 , IEEE, Second International Conference on Simulators: 7-11 September 1986 (page 145)
    • Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To utter a succession of chirps.
  • * Gray
    • The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed.
  • (transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
  • *
    • it doth not become such a one as you to twitter me.
  • *
  • To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
  • To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
  • (neologism, Internet) To use the microblogging service .
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    • Synonyms

    * (internet neologism) tweet

    Derived terms

    * atwitter