What (who) is twit - definition

PODCAST NETWORK

TWiT; Inside the Net; Inside the net; Twit.tv; Daily GizWiz; The Giz Wiz; Net@Night; Net @ Night; TWIT Live; Windows Weekly; Dr. Kiki's Science Hour; Futures in Biotech; This WEEK in LAW; This WEEK in GOOGLE; NSFW Show; ODTV; TWiT Cottage; TWiT.tv (network); The Social Hour; Daily Giz Wiz; Weekly Daily Giz Wiz; All About Android; Before You Buy; Coding 101; Ham Nation; Home Theater Geeks; IFive for the iPhone; This Week in Computer Hardware; This Week in Enterprise Tech; This Week in Google; This Week in Law; Triangulation (TWiT.tv); TWiT Live Specials; OMGcraft; Know How...; Marketing Mavericks; IPad Today

twit

(twits)

If you call someone as a twit, you are insulting them and saying that they are silly or stupid. (BRIT INFORMAL)

= twerp

N-COUNT [disapproval]

twit

v. a.

Reproach, blame, upbraid, taunt, fling at.

twit

twit¹

¦ noun informal, chiefly Brit. a silly or foolish person.

Derivatives

twittish adjective

Origin

1930s (orig. dialect, in the sense 'tale-bearer'): perh. from twit².

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twit²

¦ verb (twits, twitting, twitted) informal tease, especially good-humouredly.

Origin

OE ?twitan 'reproach with', from ?t 'at' + witan 'to blame'.

Wikipedia

TWiT.tv

TWiT.tv, which is the operating trade name of TWiT LLC, is a podcast network that broadcasts many technology news podcasts, founded by technology broadcaster and author Leo Laporte in 2005, and run by his wife and company CEO Lisa Laporte. The network began operation in April 2005 with the launch of This Week in Tech. Security Now was the second podcast on the network, debuting in August of that year. The network hosts 28 podcasts (as of July, 2020) though the number had fallen in half to only 14 regularly scheduled shows by January 2021. Podcasts include The Tech Guy, This Week in Tech, This Week in Enterprise Tech, Security Now, FLOSS Weekly, and MacBreak Weekly. In addition to shows on technology news, TWiT also has podcasts like Hands-On Photography".

TWiT founder and owner Leo Laporte, in an October 2009 speech, stated that it grossed revenues of $1.5 million per year, while costs were around $350,000. In November 2014, during an interview with American Public Media's Marketplace Leo Laporte stated that TWiT makes $6 million in ad revenue a year from 5 million TWiT podcasts downloaded each month, mostly in the form of audio, and that 3,000 to 4,000 people watch its live-streamed shows. On March 18, 2015, prior to the filming of This Week in Google, Leo Laporte stated that TWiT expects to make $7 million in revenue in fiscal year 2015, and made "almost" $10 million in revenue in 2016.

TWiT gets its name from its first and flagship podcast, This Week in Tech. The logo design originated from a traditional logic gate symbol of an "AND gate" turned on its side. Voiceovers are provided by Jim Cutler.

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Pronunciation examples for twit

1. Of twit twits fit.

#! Computer Generated Poetry _ Nick Montfort _ Talks at Google

2. WALTER ISAACSON: A twit?

The Innovators _ Walter Isaacson _ Talks at Google

3. VINT CERF: He was a twit.

The Innovators _ Walter Isaacson _ Talks at Google

4. WALTER ISAACSON: John Adams was a twit, not Franklin.

The Innovators _ Walter Isaacson _ Talks at Google

5. Twit Photo and we interview these exceptional photographers every week.

Creating Photographic Opportunity _ Catherine Hall _ Talks at Google

Examples of use of twit

1. Wilkinson, too, plays the old boy with more humanity than the upper–class twit deserves.

2. Macmillan was transformed overnight from "Supermac" into a doddering old Edwardian twit.

3. Surely (they said), he was too much the Etonian twit to charm London‘s multi–ethnic voters.

4. Yet Terry the Twit had decided it was more than his job was worth.

5. She called him a twit and blamed the "wealthy desperate Surrey housewives" who threw themselves at him.