Meanings
present singular third person live-tweets · participle present live-tweeting · participle past live-tweeted · past live-tweeted · alternative live tweet · alternative livetweet
- 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, →ISBN3 more examples
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 84We 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, →ISBNHe 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
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