De blog SocialMediatoday plaatste een handige lijst van verkorte internettaal ook wel ‘slang’ voor online. De lijst bevat meer dan 40 verkortingen voor de sociale media en dan vooral Twitter.
- B4- Before
- b/c, bc- Because
- BRB – Be Right Back
- BTW – By The Way
- DM- Direct message, a private message or “direct message” to a person you follow.
- EM or EML- Email
- Fab- Fabulous
- FB- Facebook
- FF- Follow Friday(#followfriday) A Twitter “endorsement” Tweeted show the user’s favorite people on twitter.
- Followers- Twitter Members that follow user updates
- F2F (and while we’re at it, B2B, B2C): face to face, Business to business, Business to Client (Business to Community)
- FYI- For Your Information
- Gr8- Great GTG, G2G- Got To Go
- Hashtag #: A way of organizing your updates for Twitter search engine & to enable others to discover relevant posts. For example, here are some of the worlds favourite hashtags from 2011:
- #egypt
- #tigerblood
- #threewordstoliveby
- #idontunderstandwhy
- #japan
- #improudtosay
- #superbowl
- #jan25
- #thingslongerthankimsmarriage
- #thankyousteve
- #prayforjapan
- #winning
- #inthe90s
- #rw2011
- #theawkwardmoment
- #11/11/11
- IC – I See
- IDC- I don’t care
- IDK- I don’t know
- IM- Instant Message
- JK or J/K- Just Kidding (or for UK people, Joking)
- L8- Late
- LI- LinkedIn
- LMAO- Laughing My A** Off
- LMK- Let Me Know
- LOL- Laughing Out Loud– not “lots of love” like my mother thinks it is.
- NSFW- Not Safe For Work
- OH- Overheard
- OMG- Oh My God
- OMW – On My Way
- ORLY- Oh Really?!!
- ROFL- Rolling On The Floor Laughing
- @reply: a Twitter update (a tweet) that is directed to another user within their tweet.
- RT- ReTweet
- SMH- Shaking My Head
- Thx or Tx- Thanks
- TMI- Too Much Information
- Trend- A topic “Trending” or “popular” right now on Twitter
- TTYL- Talk To You Later
- TTYS- Talk To You Soon
- TY- Thank You
- YT- YouTube
En niet te vergeten (via Danny Schuit): #WTF – What the f*ck. Ken jij meer shorts (in het Nederlands)?
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