retweet

verb

re·tweet (ˌ)rē-ˈtwēt

retweeted; retweeting; retweets

transitive + intransitive

: to repost (something, such as a message) to the X (formerly Twitter) online message service

Garcia snapped a pic that was retweeted more than a thousand times.—

Lee Jenkins

… people who use Twitter … are rewarded with social validation when their tweets are retweeted …—

The Economist

retweet

ˈrē-ˌtwēt

noun

plural retweets

The instant feedback—replies or retweets, the Twitter equivalent of applause—is intoxicating, like a pleasure-center reward for a lab rat pulling a lever. —

James Poniewozik

Examples of retweet in a Sentence

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Some accounts merely retweet local news stories, or right-wing influencers like Lara Loomer and Jack Posobiec, rather than sharing their own personal experiences. —

Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024 Send out a tweet describing your lead magnet, and ask people to retweet to receive it. —

Jodie Cook, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024 What Andreessen chose to retweet spoke even more explicitly in this direction. —

Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2023 According to screenshots obtained by Media Matters, the option to like and retweet the posts from the pro-Nazi account were still available to users. —

Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2023 See all Example Sentences for retweet