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Short Words for Twitter to Fit 140 Characters Limit

August 2, 2009 by Amit Bhawani

If you are struck with the 140 Characters limit and if you feel you could have completed your message if you were provided with 10-20 characters more space then its better to make the long words which are already posted in your Tweets shorter using the Instant Messaging acronyms which have been used since the last decade especially on IM’s like Yahoo Messenger and the Chat Rooms which are famous places where the First Message would begin with – Hi, ur name & asl plz?

Instant Messaging Acronyms

Now these short words are not really bad when you are tweeting with your friends because its not good to use them when talking to someone professionally or else when having a discussion with a client, but cmon iam sure anything is allowed when we are with our close friends. So lets start checking out the most common short words which can be implemented in Twitter to save up the Tweet space and stuff more message in each.

afaik as far as I know

afaict as far as I can tell

afk away from keyboard

atm at the moment

bbiab be back in a bit

bbiaf be back in a few (minutes)

bbl be back later

bbs be back soon

b/c because

bf boyfriend

bfo blinding flash of the obvious

brb be right back

bsod blue screen of death

btw by the way

ciao Italian for goodbye

ctrn can’t talk right now

cul8r see you later

cya see ya

dhtb don’t have the bandwidth

f2f face to face

fubar f***ed up beyond all recognition

fwiw for what it’s worth

fyi for your information

iam in a meeting

ianal I am not a lawyer

ihmb I hate my boss

iirc if I recall correctly

imho in my humble opinion

imo in my opinion

iow in other words

irl in real life

*g* grin

gf girlfriend

gmta great minds think alike

gtg got to go

j/k just kidding

k okay

lol laugh out loud

l8r later

msg message

n/m never mind

n/p no problem

oAo over and out!

omg oh my god

oob out of band

otoh on the other hand

oww oops, wrong window!

otp on the phone

pita pain in the ass

pov point of view

pw password

rotfl rolling on the floor laughing

rsn real soon now

rtfm read the friendly manual

slap sounds like a plan

thx thanks

tia thanks in advance

tla three-letter arconym

ttfn ta ta for now

ttyl talk to you later

wb welcome back

wfm works for me

wtf what the f***?!

wtg way to go!

xfer transfer

Yay so you now have to practise these words with your friends and you end up with larger messages within the alloted 140 characters space.

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My name is Amit Bhawani and here I like to share my internet/tech experience with my online readers. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram at @AmitBhawani

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  1. Mahatru Goyal says

    August 20, 2009 at 9:54 am

    To add few more:

    OMG! Oh My God
    tyvm Thank you very much
    RT ReTweet
    PRT Partial ReTweet / Please Retweet
    DM Direct Message
    F2F Face to Face
    YMMV Your Mileage May Vary
    BR Best Regards
    JV Joint Venture
    PLR Private Label Rights
    LMK Let Me Know

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