Twitter Slangs and their Meanings

HAVE YOU WONDERED THE MEANINGS OF THOSE TWITTER SLANGS

I recently noticed how confusing it was for me to decipher a lot of Twitter slangs, or should I say Twitter shorthand symbols and lingo, as I browsed through my list of followers and their tweets. It's amazing how internet users across the world develop, distribute and finally catch on with slangs for use on the internet.

A little on history of internet slangs

First, during the good old days of Yahoo Messenger, internet users found that using non-conventional slangs and shorthand that were only practically available online shortened the length of time to type and send messages. So it caught on.

Along came the Google Chat, which although was neither popular nor made any impact in my part of the world, still added to the increasing number of available slangs. Other eras flashed by until Facebook and Twitter came along. These two have pretty much held the world spellbound with their ease of connection and communication.

Over time, a plethora of slangs, which I believe is unique to only these two social media platforms have developed. Seeing my confusion, and realizing there are other people like me out there, I have tried to make a compilation of frequently-used Twitter slangs and their meanings, and by extension Facebook slangs, hoping that it will help that someone like me out there.

Social media slangs and their meanings

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Twitter slangs	Meanings of slangs
@	(at) - sends a message to a user; or message referring to that user
#	Hash tag - used to 'tag' tweets on certain topics
$	Denotes a company's stock symbol
RT	Retweet
DM	Direct Message
Tweetup	A real life meetup announced on twitter
BF	Boy Friend (or Best Friend, whichever fits the situation most)
OH	Overheard
FF	Follow Friday
HT	Heard Through or Hat Tip
MM	Music Monday
SM	Social Media
SB	Small Business
ICYMI	In Case You Missed It
MRT	Modified ReTweet
MT	Modified Tweet
NTS	Note To Self
NP	Now Playing
CC	Carbon Copy (like in E-Mail)
LMAO	Laughing My Arse Off
LMFAO	Laughing My F__king Arse Off

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