Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To utter a succession of light chirping or tremulous sounds; chirrup.
- intransitive verb To speak rapidly and in a tremulous manner.
- intransitive verb To giggle nervously; titter.
- intransitive verb To tremble with nervous agitation or excitement.
- intransitive verb To utter or say with a twitter.
- noun The light chirping sound made by certain birds.
- noun A similar sound, especially light, tremulous speech or laughter.
- noun Agitation or excitement; flutter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gardeners' name for certain plant-deformations caused by insects, notably a curious bunching and twisting of the carnation-plant caused by the work of anthomyiid larvæ. Some forms of twitter are caused by thrips and others by plantlice.
- To utter a succession of small, tremulous sounds, as a bird; sing in bird-notes; chirp.
- To titter; giggle.
- To quiver; tremble; palpitate; hence, to be in a flutter or fright.
- To sing or utter in bird-notes; chirp out.
- To spin unevenly.
- noun A shred; a fragment: used in the plural.
- noun The refuse or residuum of the case of the spermwhale, a gummy and thready substance left when the case is squeezed.
- noun A chirp or series of chirps, as of a bird, especially the swallow.
- noun A fit of laughter; a titter.
- noun A tremble; a flutter; a general excitement; a pother: as, to be in (or of) a twitter, or to be in or on the twitters.
- noun One who twits or reproaches.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who twits, or reproaches; an upbraider.
- transitive verb To utter with a twitter.
- intransitive verb To make a succession of small, tremulous, intermitted noises.
- intransitive verb To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
- intransitive verb To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
- noun The act of twittering; a small, tremulous, intermitted noise, as that made by a swallow.
- noun A half-suppressed laugh; a fit of laughter partially restrained; a titter; a giggle.
- noun A slight trembling or agitation of the nerves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The sound of a
succession ofchirps asuttered bybirds . - verb intransitive To
utter asuccession ofbird 'schirps . - verb intransitive, transitive (of a person) To
talk in anexcited ornervous manner. - verb neologism, Internet To use the
microblogging service Twitter.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a series of chirps
- verb make high-pitched sounds, as of birds
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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If you didn't yet stumble across the functionality, although we don't have any in-application functionality that let's you set where photos should go, you can just use keywords … e.g. add @twitter as a keyword on that photo to send it only to twitter (make sure you've got a 'shortcut tag' specified in the settings for your twitter pipe, and you'd probably want to disable 'send by default' so photos are only sent if you add the keyword)
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john commented on the word twitter
Follow Wordie on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Wordie.
September 4, 2007
jrome commented on the word twitter
"But we should understand that for many ideas enabled by the Internet, small is the new big." - January 3, 2008, 3:45 pm
Twitter, Firefox and Big Ideas That Are Small Companies
By Saul Hansell
Tags: Business Models, firefox, microblogging, Mozilla, twitter
February 6, 2008
jrome commented on the word twitter
Follow Jrome on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jrome
February 6, 2008
frindley commented on the word twitter
A leading lexicographer uses twitter almost exclusively as a simple "word of the day" catcher. It's pretty cool. You can follow her (emckean) or, if using a mobile or IM, just track wotd to get her posts and a bunch from other people who are doing the same thing. If you send your wotd to twitter preface it with "wotd:" and anyone tracking that keyword will see it too.
March 19, 2008
whichbe commented on the word twitter
What Are We Twittering?
May 24, 2008
kewpid commented on the word twitter
What's the logic behind the Wordie Twitterfeed?
December 31, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word twitter
I guess it makes people go see lists/words/comments that John finds particularly remarkable...?
Or do you mean the Twitter Wordiefeed?
December 31, 2008
kewpid commented on the word twitter
Yes, I mean how does a word/list get chosen to be featured on the Wordiefeed?
I like to think there's a method behind the madness :)
December 31, 2008
reesetee commented on the word twitter
What? Logic on Wordie? Have you gone mad, kewpid? ;->
January 1, 2009
kewpid commented on the word twitter
I confess, the holidays have made me a little light-headed ;)
January 2, 2009
reesetee commented on the word twitter
There, there. It happens to all of us.
January 5, 2009
artoparts commented on the word twitter
Does anybody on Wordie use a Chumby for Twitter?
February 18, 2009
nettys commented on the word twitter
And follow me - @nettys
March 26, 2009
lea commented on the word twitter
Twitter horror.
March 26, 2009
nuxiy commented on the word twitter
Haha
March 26, 2009
nuxiy commented on the word twitter
Obsessive-compulsive Twittering
March 27, 2009
lea commented on the word twitter
It's worth a song. I agree. Don't go if you hate YouTube, too. Some people do.
March 28, 2009
valse commented on the word twitter
I promptly twittered about that youtube vid after seeing it :p
March 28, 2009
john commented on the word twitter
Best definition ever: “Twitter seems to be, first and foremost, an online haven where teenagers making drugs can telegraph secret code words to arrange gang fights and orgies. It also functions as a vehicle for teasing peers until they commit suicide.�?
McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Truly Groundbreaking Marketing Research: Understanding Twitter, by Dan Kennedy, March 31, 2009
April 16, 2009
reesetee commented on the word twitter
Ha!
April 17, 2009
lea commented on the word twitter
Dogs tweet at twitter, too.
June 17, 2009
john commented on the word twitter
Been down all morning, and Facebook is under attack too. I'm feeling kind of left out that Wordie wasn't targeted.
August 7, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word twitter
SSSSH!!! They might hear you!
August 7, 2009
reesetee commented on the word twitter
Aha! So I wasn't the only one being driven crazy by Facebook!
August 7, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word twitter
A pretty serious breach of Twitter etiquette.
September 2, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word twitter
Here's a retweet posted on Twitter by @SonofGroucho: "RT @MrsStephenFry: Finally, I've created a healthy social network site - I Can't Believe It's Not Twitter." (Fri, Nov 5, 2010)
November 6, 2010