Crossword clues for twitter
- Excited state
- Tweet source
- Social network
- Sound from a tree
- Social networking site
- Microblogging service
- Company with a blue bird logo
- Website where one can find us at @CelebCrossword
- Web phenomenon
- Tweet platform
- Trendy social network
- Social networking site among the top 10 most visited websites
- Social network for short messages
- Social medium
- Site with tweets
- Site with the tagline "What are you doing?"
- Electronic social network
- Distributor of brief messages
- Bird sanctuary excitement
- (Make) a noise like a bird
- Chirp rapidly
- Forum for 140-character messages
- Service with many followers
- See 20-Across
- Where many people may follow you
- Feed supplier
- Service with a bird logo
- A series of chirps
- Tizzy
- Gabble
- Bird sound
- Chirping (could be electronic!)
- According to Spooner, more suitable material for the President's policy platform?
- Sound made by bird
- Laugh about women’s idle talk
- Laugh about Washington's leader - what's he on?
- Laugh about George Bush on campaign battlefront
- Idiot gets another comradely tip: "Communication unbecoming to office"
- Utter tremulous sounds
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Twitter \Twit"ter\, n. [From Twit.] One who twits, or reproaches; an upbraider.
Twitter \Twit"ter\, n.
The act of twittering; a small, tremulous, intermitted noise, as that made by a swallow.
A half-suppressed laugh; a fit of laughter partially restrained; a titter; a giggle.
--Hudibras.A slight trembling or agitation of the nerves.
Twitter \Twit"ter\, v. t.
To utter with a twitter.
--Cowper.
Twitter \Twit"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Twittered; p. pr. & vb. n. Twittering.] [OE. twiteren; of imitative origin; cf. G. zwitschern, OHG. zwizzir?n, D. kwetteren, Sw. qwitra, Dan. quiddre. Cf. Titter.]
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To make a succession of small, tremulous, intermitted noises.
The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed.
--Gray. To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
--J. Fletcher.[Perhaps influenced by twitch.] To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., twiteren, in reference to birds, of imitative origin (compare Old High German zwizziron, German zwitschern, Danish kvidre, Old Swedish kvitra). The noun meaning "condition of tremulous excitement" is attested from 1670s. The microblogging service with the 140-character limit was introduced in 2006. The following is considered an unrelated word of obscure origin:\n\nTWITTER.
"That part of a thread that is spun too small." Yarn is said to be twined to twitters, when twined too small, S. Hence, to twitter yarn, to spin it unequally, A. Bor. Ray.\n
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It is transferred to any person or thing that is slender or feeble. It is said of a lank delicate girl: "She is a mere twitter," S.
[Jamieson, "Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language," Edinburgh, 1808]
Wiktionary
n. 1 The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds. 2 Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To utter a succession of chirps. 2 (context intransitive transitive English) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner. 3 To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle. 4 To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated. 5 (alternative form of Twitter English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140- character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS or mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has more than 25 offices around the world.
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass and launched in July 2006. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with more than 100 million users posting 340 million tweets a day in 2012. The service also handled 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet". As of March 2016, Twitter has more than 310 million monthly active users.
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service.
Twitter or Twittering may also refer to:
- Twitter, onomatopoeia for a type of bird vocalization
- Twittering, a type of visual pattern that can occur on interlaced video, see progressivute scan
Usage examples of "twitter".
A little over a week later, they reached a much bigger canyon, a wide, rugged gorge through whose bottom ran a quiet river, where pine trees and actus coexisted along the sandy banks and birds twittered in hidden crevices among the rocks.
This ballet was intended to tell a story with the help of masks, twittering machines, mobile automata, and a large illusionist stage.
He twittered a bit and then prescribed pulverized avocado seed and crushed plantain in raw, unfermented maguey juice.
The evening after the funeral, while the Marches sat together talking it over, and making approaches, through its shadow, to the question of their own future, which it involved, they were startled by the twitter of the electric bell at their apartment door.
It was not quite a twittering nor a whir, and it was not unlike a pet shop when the bell tinkles as you step in and a chorus of parakeets and doves starts up in coos and light shrieks.
I have extracted from the seamless web of the life of my chicks, pecking or avoiding beads, shaking their heads or backing away, peeping and twittering, are abstract generalizations that I have drawn from many hundreds of thousands of individual acts by individual birds that I have observed.
How peaceful it was, with the sounds of birds twittering high above, amid the leafy branches of the giant river gums, and the occasional splash of the fish in the river.
Dickens came into his own as he chirped and twittered and then dropped his voice to moan like a walrus, all the while both telling about this Micawber fellow and, apparently, emulating him.
Jed brought Gari and Navar, who were intensely curious, twittering together as they walked down the length of the corridor.
Amsel sorted out the brown, took the big scissors from Solingen and made them twitter experimentally.
The only sounds were their out-of-breath gasps as they pistoned their fists into him and the liquid twitter of a nightjar in the deep stand of pine close by.
This couple so stealthily enlaced, the gleam of their furtively turned eyes, the whispering of their lips, that stony niche below the twittering sparrows, so cunningly sought out--it was the world he had abjured!
They went outdoors again, where the crickets and katydids were chirping in the grass, and the drowsy twitter of birds came from the maples above.
Suddenly a tiny bird twittered, and Felix saw his two truants coming slowly from the gate across the grass, his arm round her shoulders, hers round his waist.
The whispering grew, and was suddenly shot through with myriad tweets and twitters.