Learning Twitter Shorthand (for my facebook homies)
My entire family is on Facebook – literally all of them. I, however, rarely login or use the all mighty FB, instead I prefer the more simplistic – yet flexible -Twitter to provide my social fix.
But I still like to keep my family and friends updated, so I setup Twitter to automatically push my status updates to Facebook. And more times than not, my posts (and few 100,000 others) are filled with Twitter Shorthand – user created short cuts – due to the 140 characters post limitation. And unless you use twitter, you will have no idea what the hell it all means when you are bombarded with @’s and RT’s and #this or #that or #followfriday.
Twitter Shorthand Decipher Key:
@somename = a Twitter user
You can refer to another user in your updates by putting an @ in front of their username “@brandoncorbin”.
RT @username = Retweet.
If you repost another users message, you give them proper attribution by including RT: @username .
#this or #that. = hash tags
A hash tag lets you define a specific keyword(s) to associate with you status, this makes it easy to find during searches.
#followfriday @username1 @username2 …
On Friday twitter people like to promote one another. This is called Follow Friday. #followfriday @iskip is short hand for “if you trust me, then you should follow iskip”
@lagomorph13 the word “biher” as shohand rather than “ppl questioning citizenship” because its easier on twitter.
@JAGnLA maybe they write like they text & twitter (in shohand)
Does “LMAO” mean “Leave Me Alone Okay” in Twitter/text Shohand?!
@Nigel_Morgan: Way too much clumsy Twitter shohand appearing on Facebook and LinkedIn. Sloppy and dangerous! http://bit.ly/SayItRight
@Nigel_Morgan: Seeing way too much clumsy Twitter shohand appearing on Facebook and LinkedIn. Sloppy and dangerous! http://bit.ly/SayItRight