Definitions
squeeze tightly between the fingers
Word origin
Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).
Used in a sentence
“[Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.”
“Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.”
“For example, as you edit a tweet in Twitter, the number of characters left is updated as you type.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Brief social post”5 letters
02“Short social post”5 letters
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