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humbletweet

To retweet complimentary things others say about you so everyone knows how awesome you are without actually having to say it yourself.
"Oh, look. Betty's humbletweeting her RTs again. Good thing: I had NO CLUE how awesome she was until she made sure I read Frank's compliment!"
humbletweet by Chibi Jeeb August 17, 2014
Related Words

humbleoid 

noun; a person who appears to be humble, but changes for the worse shortly.
Saul and Gideon were humbleoids. They were humble at first, but became wicked in the end.
A person with short lived humility.
humbleoid by BozoBologna Schmoe January 11, 2009

humbletweet

A tweet that pretends to show humility but which is actually bragging about something that happened to you. Similar to a humblebrag.

The key to a humbletweet is to pretend you don't understand why you are getting all this attention while also making a blatant attention grab in your tweet.
Examples of a humbletweet:

(sometweeter) > What? Why? "I have one of the top 5% most viewed @LinkedIn profiles for 2012"

(sometweeter2) > Rly dnt dsrv all this #attention 4 ths #volunteer wrk w/the #homeless. Thx!
humbletweet by twidtwid February 12, 2013

Humblehoe 

A humblehoe is someone who posts something for attention then pretends to be humble about compliments while they are also bragging about something else.
Humblehoe: *posts selfie* "Just hanging out at the beach.

Person: "you look so pretty I love your bathing suit. 😍"
Humblehoe: "thanks it's my cheep one. I just bought one from Prada. But I can't find it. 😂 So clumsy."
Humblehoe by Sinkhole_Survivor June 19, 2017

Humbertoed 

Specifically in Arkansas, to be assumed as a Puerto Rican after laminating over the 6 7 debate team project
I was just Humbertoed!!!!
Humbertoed by Mr. Humberto October 7, 2025