Deze 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)?