Top 50 Twitter Acronyms, Abbreviations and Initialisms « digiphile. This past January, I wrote up the “Top 15 Twitter acronyms” for @pistachio‘s Touchbase blog. As readers rightly pointed out, many were abbreviations or initialisms — hence the title for this post. I followed that up with a “Top 10 NSFW Twitter Abbreviations.” This list combines the two and includes some key additions, like HT, RE and FML. If you have others you think I missed, add ‘em in the comments. @Reply to [username] AFAIKAs Far as I Know b/cBecause BFNBye For now BRBest Regards BTWBy the Way DMDirect Message. d username sends one.
EMEmail FBFacebook FF Usually #FF for Follow Friday. FFSFor F–k’s Sake FMLF–k My Life FTFFace To Face. FTLFor The Loss FTWFor The Win FWDForward FWIWFor What It’s Worth HTHat tip HTHHope That Helps IMHOIn My Humble Opinion IMOIn My Opinion JVJoint Venture J/KJust Kidding LILinkedIn LMAOLaughing My Ass Off LMKLet Me Know LOLLaughing Out Loud MTModified Tweet NSFWNot Safe For Work OHOverheard OMFGOh My F–king God OMGOh My God PRTPartial Retweet (at the start of a tweet). RRRe-Run. Twitrratr. Favstar_Popular tweets. Google Helps You Find Tweeps Like You.
Google recently introduced a new search tool that leverages the open API from Twitter to allow you to find Tweeps that have similar interests. You type in your @ Twitter handle and it returns a search results page that offers up a list of recommended users that have similar areas of interest to you. A little creepy that Twitter knows so much about me, but it was pretty accurate. All of the friends that it recommended are related to advertising, and if you were to look back at 99% of my tweets you would probably find that they are all about advertising or some other form of Ad Geekness.
As for this being useful, not really. Up to this point I have been fairly diligent about only following people who are somehow associated with advertising in order to keep my Twitter stream relevant to my interests. So, while I am happy to report that Google's friend finder search tool is accurate …it accurately produced a list of people that I already follow.