Subtweet

Quick meaning: Subtweet is a noun meaning (by extension) Any social media post of this type, regardless of which service it is posted on.

Meaning

(by extension) Any social media post of this type, regardless of which service it is posted on.

More Meanings

1. (social media) To post a message of this kind.
2. (by extension, transitive) To speak obliquely about (a person).
3. (social media) A tweet that refers to another user without tagging their name in the message, so that the user being talked about is not automatically notified.

Example Sentences

But it was also a subtweet, addressed to one person but meant for someone else entirely.

Schumer's remarks were oblique enough that no one will be able to say for sure whether he was subtweeting Trump.

Curt texts, unanswered emails, Facebook statuses declaring “someone” to be an idiot, the notorious subtweet; if you can communicate with it, people can be passive aggressive with it.

A less subtle way of navigating the relationship between the public and the obscure is found in subtweeting or vaguebooking (vague facebooking), the art of posting elliptically about a social situation without naming names.

Word Forms

• subtweets
• subtweeting
• subtweeted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tweet, mention, tweeting, toot, twitterism, birdsite.

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