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Eliminate waste in dry message (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tweet

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'message' is the definition.
(type of online message)

'eliminate waste in dry' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'eliminate' could be 'wee' (weeing is a kind of eliminating) and 'wee' is found within the answer.
'dry' could be 'tt' (abbreviation for teetotal) and 'tt' is found in the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
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(Other definitions for tweet that I've seen before include "Note of a small bird" , "Twitter" , "call" , "Short message posted on a social network" , "Bird noise" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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