All Time Most Crucial Twitter Abbreviations

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Conversational abbreviations:

• IMHO = In my humble opinion
• AYFKMWTS = Are you f—-ing kidding me with this s—-?
• GTFOOH = Get the f—- out of here
• OH = Overheard
• FW = No f—-ing way
• IRL = In real life
• NSFW = Not safe for work
• FML = F—- my life
• FWIW = For what it’s worth
• QOTD = quote of the day
• BTW = By the way
• BFN = Bye for now
• AFAIK = As far as I know
• TY = Thank you
• YW = You’re welcome

Technical Twitter abbreviations:

• MT = Modified tweet. This means the tweet you’re looking at is a paraphrase of a tweet originally written by someone else
• RT = Retweet. The tweet you’re looking at was forwarded to you by another user
• DM = Direct message. A direct-message is a message only you and the person who sent it can read. Important: To DM someone all you need to type is D username message
• PRT = Partial retweet. The tweet you’re looking at is the truncated version of someone else’s tweet
• HT = Hat tip. This is a way of attributing a link to another Twitter user
• CC = Carbon-copy. Works the same way as email

AND, here’s the good news text-aholics, you can use them when TEXTING too. Whoopee.

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