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Twitter Shorthand and Abbreviations!
Tweeting on Twitter can be really serious stuff! With only 140 characters at your disposal it is really important to ensure that you get the very best shorthand and abbreviations for each tweet you make! Otherwise you run the risk of becoming known as a nuisance and losing your followers. If you are tweeting on twitter for business means then you will already understand the importance of keeping your followers interested and engaged with you. If you are clever then you would have already set yourself a maximum number of tweets per day, of which 50% will probably include a link of some kind. When tweeting a link it can become difficult to get anything out there because the link takes up so many of the characters automatically! If you haven't already set yourself a limit of tweets per day then do it know in order to benefit your online business. Here you can find lots of shorthand and abbreviations to use on twitter, and perhaps you might learn a couple that you see on a daily basis, but didn't know what they meant! We will also look at how to reduce your link sizes including how to make them smaller for tweeting. If you are a fan of emoticons then you will also be pleased to see some emoticons that can be used to express the way you are feeling, without using the excessive amount of characters that we normally use. Is twitter changing the way we communicate between one another?! It certainly makes us stick to the point, stay interesting and think about what we are saying before we do it. Enjoy...
Short tweets
Abbreviations / Short Hand
| What they mean
| Abbreviations / Short Hand
| What they mean
|
|---|---|---|---|
BTW
| By the way
| M8
| Mate
|
G2G
| Got to go
| FR8
| Freight
|
L8
| Late
| W8
| Weight / Wait
|
B8
| Bait
| BRB
| Be right back
|
2D4
| To die for
| BRT
| Be right there
|
A3
| Anytime, Anywhere, Any place
| BBL
| Be back later
|
BOL
| Best of Luck
| ASL
| Age, Sex Location?
|
2L8
| Too late
| 4E
| Forever
|
D8
| Date
| ATW
| At the weekend
|
2
| To / Too
| ATM
| At the moment
|
F2F
| Face to Face
| B4
| Before
|
GAL
| Get a ife
| IOU
| I Owe You
|
LOL
| Laugh out loud
| W4U
| Waiting for you
|
ROFL
| Roll on the floor laughing
| WTG
| Way to go
|
CMN
| Come on
| CU
| See you
|
C
| See
| L8R
| Later
|
U
| You
| GR8
| Great
|
BION
| Believe it or not
| CUS
| See you soon
|
FOAF
| Friend of a friend
| 2G4U
| Too good for you
|
F4E
| Friends forever
| ASAP
| As soon as possible
|
OIC
| Oh I see
| 4WIW
| For what it's worth
|
GG
| Good game
| RUOK?
| Are you ok?
|
Emoticons can help to express the way you are feeling without the need to use words. These are Icons that express emotion - Hence the name Emoticons. You can use these on twitter to get much more out of your 140 character tweet, and it makes you all the little bit more interesting.
Emoticon
| What's it mean?
| Emoticon
| What's it mean?
|
|---|---|---|---|
:)
| Happy
| zzz
| Sleepy
|
:0)
| Happy
| @@
| Eyes
|
:-)
| Happy
| :-&
| Tongue tied
|
;)
| Winking
| <3
| Love heart
|
;0)
| Winking
| 4@
| Forever
|
;-)
| Winking
| >-|
| Angry
|
:D
| Super Happy
| :-()
| Talking
|
8-)
| Happy
| OTP
| On the phone
|
:p
| Tongue Out
| ((H))
| Hugs
|
;P
| Wink and tongue out
| XXX
| Kisses
|
:0|
| Stern face
| XXX
| Sex
|
:-Z
| Angry face
| <("(00)")>
| Piggy
|
:'-(
| Crying
| 0:-)
| Angel
|
:'O(
| Crying
| :-)8
| Happy with Bow tie
|
:-(
| Sad
| |-0
| Yawning
|
:0(
| Sad
| :0))
| Double happy
|
:(
| Sad
| ||
@>--;--
| Rose
|
URL Shortners - With just 140 characters you do not want to be wasting them all on URL's! Use these free url link shorteners to make for smaller links and more explanation! Really good free tweeting tools..
Website
| Reasons for using
| |
|---|---|---|
Dot.tk
| Allows you to shorten links
| |
Is.gd
| Shortest links around
| |
shtn.co
| Shorten links quickly
| |
Tinyurl.cc
| Small urls made easy
|
