live-tweet

verb

To provide real-time updates or commentary on an event in progress through Twitter posts.

Meanings

verblive-tweet (third-person singular simple present live-tweets, present participle live-tweeting, simple past and past participle live-tweeted)

present singular third person live-tweets · participle present live-tweeting · participle past live-tweeted · past live-tweeted · alternative live tweet · alternative livetweet

  1. InternetTo provide real-time updates or commentary on an event in progress through Twitter posts.

    Or maybe, like Stern, you can live-tweet comments about a television show as it is broadcast.

    2011, David Meerman Scott, The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN
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    Realizing the need he had discovered—no record of the General Assembly's proceedings had to that point existed on Twitter—he returned the next night to live-tweet the whole event.

    2011, Writers for the 99%, Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America, OR Books, →ISBN, page 84

    We weren't planning to live-tweet the birth, but we felt in that moment that we needed the power of prayer.

    2013, Kelsey Williams, “Rooney's Birth Story”, in Parenting, Uncensored: Straight Talk from Real Moms on Giving Birth, →ISBN

    He dreams of Mars as he bestrides Earth, square-jawed and indomitable. Lately, Elon Musk also likes to live-tweet his poops.

    December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021

Origin

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APA

live-tweet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/live-tweet

MLA

“live-tweet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/live-tweet. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “live-tweet,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/live-tweet.

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