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In response to the bid, Altman posted on Musk's social media platform X: "no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want."

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2025

“And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” Musk posted on the site.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

The Twitter logo began a transition to X last week, shortly after Musk tweeted: “and soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023

Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who bought Twitter for $44 billion last year, wrote on Twitter on July 23, “soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2023

The vireos twitter as they carry food to their nestlings.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

African wild dogs have thus evolved to stay under the radar, communicating in twitters best captured by wild dog ears, and steering clear of places where lions and hyenas — and now humans — abound.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2022

Looking like a miniature killer whale, it twitters in flight.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2020

We startle a chunky little woodcock that's sheltering in the long grass and it twitters its indignation shrilly.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2020

He smiles, she twitters, and the next day the newspapers are headlining, “Who’s That Girl?”

From Time ● Nov. 22, 2011

Gran twitters on for another five minutes, filling me in on mundane news: Heather has decided she wants to become a librarian.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

The other players twinklingly twittered as Campbell’s hand slid up and down the neck of his cello, for a woozy ondes Martenot effect.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022

As the orange ball of the sun rose on the horizon and birds twittered in the eucalypti, Baumgarten showed up—a fit, poised, attractive guy in his 40s.

From Golf Digest ● Apr. 2, 2020

The highlight was a rare 19th-century pocket watch, whose face was dotted with pearls and rubies and concealed a pop-up bird, slightly larger than a thumbnail, that twittered and sang.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2019

He twittered on about last night’s screening, then asked me to think of a piece to write for Vogue, so that’s a relief.

From MSNBC ● Nov. 15, 2017

And even then, in the quiet darkness inside the caravan, the pretty bird chuckled and twittered and trilled, and, once, it even hooted like a little owl.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

It helps nurture a slower, older way of life, with pocket flocks and modest dairy herds enclosed by thick hedgerows foaming with cow parsley and twittering songbirds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

On a long low wall alongside the Liangshui river in Beijing, a trader has several small cages with tiny twittering birds.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025

And the twittering masses erupted in debate again hours later when the Los Angeles Police Department announced it was not investigating the matter because Rock had declined to pursue criminal charges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2022

Today’s readers, used to the twittering demotic of our age, may need to adjust to this titanic prose-poem’s leisurely, mandarin style.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2022

Some kind of bird started twittering in a tree farther down the road, otherwise all was silent.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl