Whether you agree or not, we all love to type ‘LOL‘ than ‘Laughing Out Loud‘ to save space, time and effort. As an active user of many micro blogging websites, I also like to use abbreviations in my messages. Many abbreviations are commonly used across all micro blogging websites but some are specific to Twitter. There are around 100 million daily active Twitter users who share their views in 140 characters or less. This leads to invention of new acronyms and abbreviations each day.
While discussing with people, I usually hear them saying, ‘I have an account on Twitter but I don’t use it.‘ or ‘I am unable to understand Twitter at all‘. I don’t blame them because they have to decode so many words to understand a tweet. To help social media users, I have compiled a list of 60 lingos, slangs, acronyms, and abbreviations that are used on Twitter and other micro blogging websites.
1. PRT – Partial Tweet (used when you only share a part of the original tweet)
2. V2V – Voice To Voice (asking a person to discuss something over a phone call)
3. ICYMI – In Case You Missed It
4. AFAIK – As Far As I Know
5. IOW – In Other Words
6. TT – Translated Tweet (used when you translate and share a tweet that was originally written in a foreign language)
7. SMH – Shaking My Head (used when you don’t agree with something or if it disgusts you)
8. SMDH – Shaking My Damn Head (a stronger version of the above acronym)
9. TQRT – Thanks For Retweet
10. TMI – Too Much Information
11. TL;DR – Too Long; Didn’t Read (used while sharing an article, news or long text)
12. TL – Timeline (while giving reference to your Twitter timeline)
13. CHK – Check
14. TIA – Thanks In Advance
15. TFTF – Thanks For The Follow
16. W8 – Wait
17. TMB – Tweet Me Back
18. W/ – With
19. TBH – To Be Honest (generally used while giving a statement or your opinion on a specific topic)
20. STFU – Shut The F*k Up
21. SNAFU – Situation Normal All F*ked Up
22. RTFM – Read The F*ing Manual
23. RTF – Read The FAQ (can also refer to “Rich Text File”)
24. TTYL – Talk To You Later
25. TTYS – Talk To You Soon
26. ROFL – Rolling On Floor Laughing
27. OMG – Oh My God
28. OH – Overheard (used to quote something funny that you overheard.)
29. MT – Modified Tweet (used when user manually retweet a message with modifications)
30. TIL – Today I Learned (sharing the topic that you learnt today)
31. LOL – Laughing Out Loud
32. LMAO – Laughing My Ass Off
33. LMK – Let Me Know
34. L8 – Late
35. J/K – Just Kidding
36. FYK – For Your Knowledge
37. IMO – In My Opinion
38. HTH – Hope That Helps
39. HT or h/t – Hat Tip (used to acknowledge the user who originally shared the message. It replaces “via” and also saves one character.)
40. GR8 – Great
41. GFF – Get Fast Followers (sites or twitter accounts that promise to get you more followers. They are generally spam and are not advisable to use or follow. )
42. ASAP – As Soon As Possible
43. FTW – For The Win
44. FTL – For The Loss
45. FTF – Face To Face
46. #FF – Follow Friday hashtag (user suggestions regarding whom to follow on Fridays
47. FWD – Forward
48. DM – Direct Message
49. CX – Correction (used to correct your previous message)
50. b/c – Because (some people also use bcoz)
51. CC – Carbon Copy (used in a tweet when you want to share it with more users)
52. BTW – By The Way
53. B4 – Before
54. MM – Music Monday
55. BFN – Bye For Now
56. IDK – I Don’t Know
57. JLT – Just Like That
58. EMA – Email Address
59. IRL – In Real Life (used when you refer to a situation of real life)
60. RLRT – Real Life Retweet (used to quote something a person said in Real Life)
I am sure that this is not a comprehensive list and would appreciate if you can share more such acronyms and abbreviations with their meanings in the comments below.
Please share this article and follow me at @theKunalMathur. I will end this article by saying, “TIL about Twitter abbreviations. HTH you as well. BFN! 🙂“
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