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推文

Mandarin · pinyin tuī wén

a post on X (formerly Twitter)
article posted to subscribers' feeds (on WeChat etc)
(HK, Tw) to "bump" a forum thread to raise its profile
(Tw) to comment on a post on the PTT bulletin board

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推: tuī · push, expel; push forward
文: wén · literature, culture, writing

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noun · Etymology 1

(neologism, Internet) tweet (post on Twitter) (Classifier: 則／则 m)

verb · Etymology 2

(Hong Kong, Taiwan, Internet) to post a reply to an old forum thread to move it to the top of the list; to bump an old post back to the top of a forum page
(Mainland China, Internet) to promote a writing

verb · Etymology 3

(Mainland China, of WeChat, etc.) to push an article to feeds

noun · Etymology 3

(Mainland China, of WeChat, etc.) an article pushed to feeds

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