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Twitter Abbreviations

from a businessInsider post today, a list of obvious and not so obvious most common shortcodes on twitter…yawn

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

Tweeting Before There Was Twitter

Remember when you had to broadcast your status updates the old fashioned way?

Twitter Approval Matrix

The folks at NYMag threw together this rather amusing Twitter matrix.

awesome.

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Swine Flu Meets Twitter, Panic Ensues

at first glance, it seems helpful.  Then, you begin to realize that perhaps it will create more panic and hysteria than the traditional media (including internet news sites) could ever dream of:    http://twitter.com/veratect