how to pronounce tweet

/ˈtwiːt/

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tweet is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of tweet in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… event but also that you tweet to us …”

meanings of tweet

noun:

An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.

verb:

To post an update to Twitter.
To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.

interjection:

An onomatopoeic of bird singing.

tweet frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word tweet occurs in english on average 13.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics tweet can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that tweet can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;