Journalist on social media site communicated chirpily (9)
I believe the answer is:
twittered
'communicated chirpily' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'journalist on social media site' is the wordplay.
'journalist' becomes 'ed' (short for editor).
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'social media site' becomes 'twitter' (Twitter is a social media website).
'ed' put after 'twitter' is 'TWITTERED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for twittered that I've seen before include "Chirped away" , "said nothing of value" , "Sounded like a small bird" , "sang like a bird!" .)