retweet

[ree-tweet]

verb (used with or without object)

1. to share or forward (someone else's message) on the Twitter social media service and website: I’ll only retweet if I’m also making an original comment. RT

   I laughed out loud and retweeted the meme to all of my followers.

   I’ll only retweet if I’m also making an original comment.

noun

1. a message that has been shared or forwarded on Twitter: RT

   the most popular retweets.

retweet

verb

1. to post another user's blog the Twitter website for your own followers

Word History and Origins

Origin of retweet¹

First recorded in 2007; re- + tweet (in the sense “message posted on Twitter”)

Example Sentences

The only connection he found between the player and the company came in a 2023 tweet by the Clippers that read, “Happy Birthday, Kawhi! For every comment/retweet, @Aspiration will plant one tree for Kawhi’s birthday!”

From Los Angeles Times

For every comment/retweet, @Aspiration will plant one tree for Kawhi's birthday!

From Los Angeles Times

Months after Musk’s fateful retweet, Halimi is still picking up the pieces and trying to get answers.

From Salon

“Worse,” the judge wrote, the government “defied the court’s order deliberately and gleefully,” citing Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s retweet of a post by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele boasting of the disobedience.

From Slate

Then Rowan shared similar documents about a local film critic — he’d posted a “snarky” retweet of the Tribune writer — and about a student reporter at Southern Utah University.

From Salon