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Definition of "twitter" []

  • To utter a succession of light chirping or tremulous sounds; chirrup. (verb-intransitive)
  • To speak rapidly and in a tremulous manner: twittering over office gossip. (verb-intransitive)
  • To giggle nervously; titter. (verb-intransitive)
  • To tremble with nervous agitation or excitement. (verb-intransitive)
  • To utter or say with a twitter: twittered a greeting. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "twitter" in a sentence
  • "BTW, I offered my services today to @twitter @EV @Biz today on twitter – no reply."
  • "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)"
  • "Follow me on twitter @twitter.com/1jasminenicole See you there:) Check it out ..."