Tweet (social media)

"Tweeting" and "Tweeted" redirect here. For the animal behavior, see Bird vocalization.

A tweet by @karenism from 2007: "catching bugs. squish squish!"
A user tweeting about bugs

A tweet is a short status update on the social networking site Twitter, officially known as X, which can include images, videos, GIFs, straw polls, hashtags, mentions, and hyperlinks. Around 80% of all tweets are made by 10% of users, averaging 138 tweets per month, with the median user making only two tweets per month.

Following the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, and rebranding of the site as "X", the "tweet" button was changed to "post", and "retweet" changed to "repost".