Build your Twitter vocabulary
Published on May 20th, 2010 by Monica Nakamine 
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To maximize your 140-word limit, Nick Shin, our resident social media guru, came up with a brilliant dictionary of Twitter terms and abbreviations on his own blog, Marketing Shindig. Here’s a few of them:
AFAIK = As far as I know
bc or b/c = Because
BG = Background (referring to their Twitter background)
BFN = Bye for now
BRB = Be right back
BTW = By the way
CT = Cutweet= It’s a shortened retweet that had to be shortened to include all of the information. Usually happens when there are a lot of RT’ed users.
EM = Email
FB = Facebook
F2F or FTF = Face to face
FWIW = For what it’s worth
Gr8 = Great
HTH = Hope that helps
IDK = I don’t know
IMO = In my opinion
IMHO = In my honest/humble opinion
IRL = In real life
JSYK = Just so you know
LI = LinkedIn
LMK = Let me know
LMBO = Laughing my butt off
LOL = Laughing out loud (I’ve also seen people use LOL to mean “lots of love”.)
NP = No problem
OH = Overheard
OOT = Out of touch
PLZ = Please
PPL = People
RE = Regarding
ROFL = Rolling on the floor laughing
RT = Retweet
RTHX/TQRT = Thanks for the retweet
TMB = Tweet me back
TMI = Too much information
TTYS = Talk to you soon
TTYL = Talk to you later
TY = Thank you
Via @ = Crediting a user for their tweet, but not copying it verbatim
W/E = Whatever or weekend
YT = YouTube
<3 = Text version of a heart. (I would argue that it’s a kiss too.)
Visit Marketing Shindig for a complete list of Twitter terms that will help build your Twitter vocabulary, and might even inspire you to create a few “words” of your own.
