Twitter Dictionary | 35 Twitter Abbreviations

Do you know how to speak Twitter? It makes sense that with only 140 characters, there would be a need to create some shortcuts, but with all the new abbreviations popping up every day, I think it is becoming more of a dialect. (They are technically called acronyms, not abbreviations)

Just the other day someone tweeted me with IMHO in the tweet. What the heck does that mean? How does someone figure that stuff out? I remember it took me a month to learn that TY stands for thank you. I know… duh!

If you are new on Twitter, I’m about to save you a whole bunch of time and shorten your learning curve a lot. I made this master list of 35 Twitter abbreviations for us to share. I’m sure there may be some I’ve forgotten, so please leave them in a comment below.

Enjoy!

1. b/c = Because

2. BG = Background (when someone refers to their Twitter background page)

3. BFN = Bye for now

4. BR = Best regards

5. BTW = By the way

6. DM = Direct message

7. EM = Email

8. FB = Facebook

9. FTF = Face to face

10. FWIW = For what it’s worth

11. Gr8 = Great

12. IMO = In my opinion

13. IMHO = In my honest opinion or in my humble opinion

14. IRL = In real life

15. J/K = Just kidding

16. LI = LinkedIn

17. LMK = Let me know

18. LMBO = Laughing my butt off

19. LMAO = Laughing my ass off

20. LOL = Laughing out loud

21. NP = No problem

22. OMG = Oh my God

23. OMFG = Oh my f—- God

24. PLZ = Please

25. ROFL = Rolling on the floor laughing

26. RT = Retweet

27. RTHX = Thanks for the retweet

28. TMB = Tweet me back

29. TMI = Too much information

30. TTYS = Talk to you soon

31. TTYL = Talk to you later

32. TY = Thank you

33. WTH = What the heck

34. WTF = What the f—

35. YW = You’re welcome

<3 = This is the text version of a heart

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75 ways how you can use twitter in your business

Yesterday we mention about 42 signs You Are A Twitter Addict. Today we like to tell you about how twitter can be used as key tool for marketing your business.

We really can’t deny the fact that businesses are testing out Twitter as part of their steps into the social media landscape. You can say it’s a stupid application, that no business gets done there, but there are too many of us (including me) that can disagree and point out business value. I’m not going to address the naysayers much with this. Instead, I’m going to offer 50 thoughts for people looking to use Twitter for business. And by “business,” I mean anything from a solo act to a huge enterprise customer.


So here are the 75 ways how you can use twitter in your business

1. To promote your worthwhile cause/favourite charity on justgiving.com
2. To point people to the latest copy of your newsletter
3. To promote your internet radio show on blogtalkradio.com
4. To tell people of your event on eventbrite.com
5. To send out an updated price list to clients & prospects
6. To share your powerpoint presentation on slideshare.net
7. To ask for referrals
8. To qualify prospects
9. To tell people about your latest press release on prfree.com
10 To promote your latest article on ezinearticles.com
11. To get eyeballs on to your ad on ebay
12. To Share some useful tips about your services
13. To get signups for your workshops and seminars
14. To conduct market research
15. To promote your latest podcast
16. To share your seminar talk on slideserve.com
17. To give your feedback of software you just bought
18. To conduct marketing research
19. To show the latest thread on your blog (twitterfeed)
20. To point them to your press release on PRWeb.com
21. To get eyeballs on to your squidoo.com lens
22. To get people to book on your workshop via regonline.com
23. To position yourself as an expert
24. To get new members to your clubs on groups.google.com & groups.yahoo.com
25. To promote your articles on goarticles.com
26. To increase response to your base.google.com ads
27. To tell people about onlywire.com
28. To share your white paper on scribd.com
29. To launch your new premium service
30. To tell people you’re going on holiday
31. As a way to promote your products online
32. To promote your latest video on You Tube
33. To promote your ad on oodle.com
34. To allow people to download a trial version of your software
35. To promote your latest job vacancies
36. To find out what latest job vacancies are out there
37. Share some useful tips about your products
38. To promote your latest photographs on flickr
39. To get comments onto your blog
40. To share an important fact form wickipedia.org
41. To give referrals
42. To help others generate traffic via trafficswarm
43. To show your demo video on video.google.com
44. To show people your trial software on download.com
45. To boost morale
46. To create mutual opportunity for friends
47. To simplify/improve your customer service and support
48. Tto tell people about theresultsacademy.com
49. To promote your new membership site on ning.com
50. To promote your latest book
51. To help with recruitment for your MLM Opportunity
52. To remind people of your terms and conditions
53. To tell people how to create a mobile website with mofuse.com
54. To give people a google map url on how to find you
55. To direct people to your ezine sign up page
56. To get people to vote for you at dig.com
57. To collect case studies
58. To get people to sign up to your webinar at gotowebinar.com
59. To share customer testimonials
60. To run a poll or survey using surveymonkey.com
61. To advise others of bad payers / bad debtors
62. To point people to your latest article on Business-Scene.com
63. To tell people about ping.fm
64. To tell people about your new listing on reddit.com
65. to tell others what the best sellers on ebay are
66. to link to your ads on Friday-ad.co.uk
67. to encourage others to subscribe to your group on facebook.com
68. To share financial market info from http://finance.yahoo.com/
69. To ask for ideas, suggestions and recommendations for new products
70. To share a Spreadsheet via Google Docs
71. To Tell people how to book on your next webinar
72. To share your diary and get your appointments booked up
73. To give your feedback of a workshop or seminar you attended
74. To demonstrate to journalists how responsive your network can be
75. To say thank you to people you care about.


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42 signs You Are A Twitter Addict

Are you addicted to Twitter? Twitter is the popular micro blogging platform which allows you to send messages (tweets) to your friends, relatives and followers. You can send tweets to your followers with text up to 140 characters. As Twitter has got really popular, there are people spending all day over twitter with signs of twitter addiction.


Warning signs of Twitter Addiction

You are warned that you are addicted to Twitter when you…

1. Get excited when someone follows you on Twitter.
2. Feel the end of the world when twitter gets an outage.
3. Send @ and RT in messages to your friends in emails.
4. Beg your blog readers to follow you on twitter, and then beg your Twitter followers to Retweet the tweet.
5. Post more tweets than blog posts, and turn from full time blogger to full time tweeter.
6. Spend all day on twitter giving yourself the excuse that you are doing great service to your followers, and bunk going to office.
7. Tweet on Twitter more than doing office work.


8. Feel over the Moon and on top of the world when someone Retweet your tweet
9. Keep searching for your twitter name and your tweets in real time twitter search.
10. Keep refreshing the twitter page every second for new tweets.
11. Include your twitter profile in your Gmail signature instead of your blog
12. Print your twitter id on business cards.
13. Set Twitter as your browser home page.
14. Add notice in front of office door – “I am on Twitter, Don’t disturb”.

15. Use more than 5 twitter clients.
16. Add your twitter name to Google alerts to know what others are speaking about you.
17. Blog more about twitter applications.
18. Add your status message as “Follow me on twitter” to Gtalk and yahoo messenger
19. Use Twoogle to search in Google and Twitter.
20. Keep urging your family members to get a twitter account.
21. Follow lot of people on #FollowFriday
22. Introduce yourself to new persons more as a tweeter than as a businessman.
23. Go crazy about twitter and advertise on newspapers, TV and distribute pamphlets to follow you on twitter.
24. Ask your bosses wife to follow you on twitter!
25. Add your twitter id to the nameplate of your house.
26. Keep sending SMS to all your friends to follow you on twitter.
27. Ask questions about Twitter rather than job related queries during interviews.
28. Threaten your wife to get a twitter account and follow you, or warn her of divorce
29. Only wear dresses with twitter logos.

30. All of your friends’ names start with @.
31. You know what a tweet is and don’t snicker.
32. Your tweeted while your wife gave birth.
33. Your tweeted while giving birth.
34. Your kids have to tweet you to get you to make dinner.
35. Your mom joined Twitter to chat with you.
36. All you want for Christmas is unlimited SMS use on your cell phone.
37. You don’t read emails that aren’t highlighted replies to you.
41. You Twitter before you start the coffee in the morning.

42. You Twitter from your candlelight anniversary dinner that you are celebrating.

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Benefits of Social Networking

Social Networking is catching steam in India and more and more people are joining a community of their choice to remain connected. In the Comscore report the popular social networking sites used by Indian users are : Orkut , Facebook , Bharatstudent ,hi5 , ibibo, Myspace, Linkedin and Bigadda. The Social networking has now taken a next step to be a valuable business tool also. Beyond the casual friendship conencts , these tools offer all of us a great oportunity to utilize the resources to make our community , business and ideas visible to a wider world.

Every knows about social networking but not everybody knows the benefits or uses it to it’s full advantage. Of course the main reasons people network are to talk to others, build relationships and find people who are similar to themselves. The more you dig down though the more uses and benefits you can find for social networking and with all the different social network and platforms, you’re spoiled for places to go.

1.Building Meaningful Relationships

Social networking and the human side of it is so important, the more real and transparent you are the better. Therefore you’ll have the trust of people and when barriers are broken down and people actually trust you that’s when your relationships will really grow. When you reach this point and it’s the point you want to strive for, when you trust each other and when you just want to HELP and BENEFIT each other, that’s when the magic happens. For example, on twitter I get a lot of direct messages but the people who send them don’t introduce themselves, say my name or personalize it in any way. I understand the time savings of having automated messages and people don’t always have the time but in the long run it’s better to sent a message by hand. Those who do personalize and actually interact with me are the people I trust, the people I remember and the people I want to help more because they put the effort and time into building a relationship with me.

If you always keep in mind that you really are trying to build valuable and meaningful relationships and not seeing them as another visitor, customer or sale,then everything else you do will bring you nothing but opportunities, responsive followers and lifelong friends. Priortizing the important channels for communication then becomes an essential need of the way we do Social netwrking.

2.Building Traffic

Basically the more networking you do the greater chance you have of getting traffic. This doesn’t mean the more you bombard and spam people, the more traffic you will get. It means the more real and valuable you’re networking efforts are, the more traffic you will get. Building traffic from certain social networks can be very targeted and very beneficial. For example, if you’re looking for traffic from professionals online then go to linkedin, if you’re looking to target blog owners then go to blog social networks and comment on other blogs. Each social network has their own audience and user demographics so you’re approach to each should be slightly tailored to each one.

3.Building links

Link building is the life blood of SEO. The more links and quality links you get the better and if you can get those links with your choice of anchor text then you’ll rank higher in the search engines. Most of your social profiles will allow you to link to your blog or/and your other social profiles. This is a key to successful blogging, you must build as many links as possible.

4.Increased Visibility

The more social profiles you create, the more content you create on them and the more you interact, as at result you will increase the visibility you, your site and your brand will get and also gaining you trust in the minds of others. Remember don’t spread yourself all over the web if you can’t contribute, interact and give time to each of those networks and communities. People want to be in a community, they want to talk and interact with you but if your not there to care or share then that’s a problem and may be bad for you and your site. Still, the basic point is the more you’re seen, the more familiarity and trust you’ll gain.

5.Business and JV Opportunities

Over time and the more people you meet, the more business opportunities you will come across. You’ll meet other leaders and players in your industry and niche so over time these relationships will grow, ye will understand and know what the other is doing and an opportunity will arise when one person takes the first step and proposes something. I would recommend taking action yourself and not hoping or relying on others to propose something first.

6.Mind-sharing and Insight

The idea here is that you can engage with your target audience and find out new insights. You get a unique perspective into them, their lives and their problems. You can give them help and advice and in return they give you feedback and trust, this also applies to joint venture partners where ye both help each other, so in other words mind-share with each other. This is so powerful to be able to talk to your prospects and audience and hear from them what their point of view is. Social networking is also a great atmosphere to get feedback, research and insight because it’s so human focused. People don’t want to be told, forced, spammed or made do anything but when you Involve them that’s when everything changes.

So there you have it, 6 benefits. The benefits are huge and the results you’ll receive can be huge too.

Twitter Worth About $600 Million

That is what NeXTt Up Research found out. To be exact, it has estimated Twitter’s valuation at the range of $526 million to $674 million.

According to Michael Moe, the man leading the research team, “based his figures on revenue opportunities in regions, publicly available documents, press releases and articles, and other criteria.” It was also estimated that Twitter currently has more than 70 million users.


Other interesting findings include Twitter’s revenue growth, which is predicted to be $114 million to $134 million in 2013, and $126 million to $148 million in 2014.

Surely, this amount of money wouldn’t be solely from its paid-service account that is rolling out at the end of this year.

Twitter’s business model is yet another big guesswork.

Source: USA Today, Image via pixmac

LinkedIn works with Twitter, and vice versa

Today we’re announcing a partnership between LinkedIn and Twitter – and new features that we think are going to make both Twitter and LinkedIn more powerful for you. These new features will be rolling out gradually over the next couple of days.

The idea is simple: When you set your status on LinkedIn you can now tweet it as well, amplifying it to your followers and real-time search services like Twitter Search and Bing. And when you tweet, you can send that message to your LinkedIn connections as well, from any Twitter service or tool.

Why? Because when you’re trying to get something done, you want Twitter and LinkedIn to work together. Like peanut butter and chocolate! Or at least that’s what Biz and Reid think:

LinkedIn has always been about helping you to build your professional identity on the web. The many elements that make up your online professional brand range from your LinkedIn profile to the many professional conversations you’re a part of. Status has proved valuable to our users, from finding new assignments and jobs to kick-starting a global business enterprise.

Now you can amplify those messages by broadcasting them to your audience on Twitter.

How does LinkedIn work with Twitter?

The feature will roll out to everyone over the next couple of days (so be patient!), but with today’s launch, we’re making that two-way communication between your status updates and tweets a breeze to set up. Here’s how it works:

1. On LinkedIn

Want to share some interesting ideas about an industry-specific article you’ve just read with an even broader audience? Or how about letting people view your Twitter account name on your LinkedIn profile? Begin by joining your LinkedIn and Twitter accounts in just a few clicks. All you need to do is check the Twitter box under your Network Updates box on the homepage and follow a few simple steps.

Syncing your LinkedIn and Twitter accounts

Clicking through the setup process will allow you to specify the Twitter account that you’d like to sync and/or display on your LinkedIn profile.

Display Twitter on your LinkedIn profile

2. On Twitter

As a professional online and in the real world, you’ll often find articles or think of ideas that would be useful to share with your Twitter followers and your LinkedIn connections. It’s about sparking interesting conversations. Now you can share from anywhere. As part of the setup process, you can choose to either send all your tweets or select tweets from Twitter back to LinkedIn as a status update.

Share tweets as your LinkedIn status

If you pick the latter, don’t forget to add the #li or #in hashtag to every relevant tweet you’d like to send back to LinkedIn. Here’s a good example:

Include #in with any tweet to post as your LinkedIn status

So go ahead and get started. Link your LinkedIn and Twitter accounts today to add a new dimension to your professional conversation.

The Social Media Revolution [Video]

Is social media a fad?

Apparently not, according to this video, and it’s being backed by strong reasons!

It was explained that social media is causing a fundamental shift in the way we communicate. Some of the statistics might be overwhelming initially but they make absolute sense.

Some useful statistics for businesses:

• 25% of search results for the world’s top 20 brands are links to user generated-content

• 34% of bloggers post opinions about products and brands

• 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations

• Only 14% trust advertisements

• Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate positive ROI

• By 2010, Gen Y will outnumber baby boomers, and 96% of them would have joined a social network

• Social media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the web

The Social Media Revolution

A Huge Reason For Businesses To Start Using Social Media

On top of the 3 compelling reasons we came up with, this video has managed to use statistics to tell businesses why they should start social media. With the rise of social sites like Facebook and Twitter (and the recent integration of social search into search engines), peer recommendations have never been so influential.

Businesses are under constant pressure to give their best to the consumers. Start using social media to catch the buzz surrounding your brand. Trust me, you want to be the first to know!

COMEDY: Twitter In The Office!

The thought of micro-blogging will always come along with the famous 140 restriction. It is indeed a beauty to receive nuggets of information, making information digestion easy (though it is not so good for our brain).

But this beautiful concept requires us to create, delete and summarize. It is viable in the digital world where our thoughts are not seen until we click “send”.

What happens if we apply this concept in reality? Hmm.. the video below shows how disastrous it could be…
Twatif? – “The Office”

Perhaps forming our thoughts before we speak can prevent this problem. But it might also prove to be too tough for many.

Tweeting soon, world’s great works of literature

Two students in the US have summarised the stories of some of the world’s greatest literature in to 140-character messages using the popular micro-blogging site Twitter.

Emmett Rensin, an English and philosophy student at the University of Chicago, and friend Alexander Aciman, who is studying comparative literature, condensed the plot lines in Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter, soon to be published by Penguin.

According to the Telegraph, the book reads Dante’s Inferno as: “I’m having a midlife crisis. Lost in the woods. Should a bought my iPhone.” Sophocles’ Oedipus the King is trimmed to: “PARTY IN THEBES!!! Nobody cares I killed that old dude, plus this woman is all over me.” Homer’s The Odyssey, and the work of Milton, Kafka and Shakespeare also feature in the tome.

Rensin said: “It’s funny if you’ve read the books.” Aciman added: “There were some lines in the book where we’re sitting on a couch and we’re writing it, and we’d both laugh and say ‘there’s no way they’re going to let us write that’.

“Some people think it’s funny and some people think it’s disrespectful. “I’m not going to say it’s high art. There is some value to it, I feel, aside from the fact we’re making available the idea behind great works of art.”

Source: The Hindu

3 Benefits When Using Twitter As A Customer Service Tool

When we, the customers have a complaint or query directed to a company, we either visit the corporate website or ring up the busy hotline.

But how many times has the inadequate FAQ list frustrated us? And how long did we have to wait before we finally hear an unrecorded voice at the other end of the call?

All these speak failure.

Could Twitter be a solution? It might not be perfect, but it certainly could help patch up some of the major flaws of other customer service tools.

1. It is fast

At least from the consumer’s perspective. Rather than waiting for an operator to pick up, or looking through a whole chunk of FAQs, tweeting allows a customer to send the query directly to the customer service personnel.

The biggest challenge faced by businesses on Twitter is the speed of replies. Hence, having a dedicated Twitter customer service representative is crucial. His or her job scope would be to handle the account during office hours.

2. It is fun

The Twitter experience is cool and refreshing as compared to engaged hotlines and boring FAQs.

It is fun because it involves interaction. Except for the sales people, businesses don’t normally speak to consumers directly.

It forces businesses to speak, leading to a more intimate relationship between customers and businesses.

3. It is effective

Did being fast and fun make it effective? Partly yes. But the best part of Twitter is it being a social networking site.

While FAQs, hotlines and even emails are all very much a one-sided customer service tool, Twitter helps you initiate conversations and gain feedback. You don’t have to wait till someone complains to care, ask followers how satisfied they are and start casual chats.

Your following list can only keep growing unless you give users reasons not to. Over time, your Twitter account will slowly become an asset as Twitter reaches worldwide adoption.

Summing it up

Twitter is powerful but using it as a sole tool is suicidal.

FAQs and hotlines are still very much required in most businesses to give customers more options.

However, with a customer oriented approach, Twitter can greatly value add the customer service system, in a way no other platforms can. Try it and be pleasantly surprised by great customer response!

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30 must use Twitter Applications

Enjoy tweeting with these 30 free and useful Twitter applications.

If you use Twitter a lot I’m sure you’ll love these 30 free Twitter applications that can help improve your experience with Twitter.

TwitPaper helps you download cool Twitter Layouts and Backgrounds for free.

FileTwt brings file sharing to twitter. With FileTwt you can now easily upload and tweet about your files for free.

TweetPhoto helps you share photos instantly on Twitter and Facebook.

TBuzz helps you share the websites you visit on Twitter easily. TBuzz is a bookmarklet that posts the current page you are on to your Twitter timeline.

Tweepler helps you deal with your new Twitter followers in a more enjoyable way.

Vidly helps you easily share videos on Twitter.

FlickToTweet helps you upload photos to Flickr and helps you announce the upload on Twitter.

TwtJobs helps you post a job or post a resume to Twitter.

Twtvite is an event manager tool that helps you organize Tweetups and make meaningful connections through social media.

Twtlong allows you to share more than 140 chars text, photos, videos and maps on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed or on any other social media site.

TwitZap lets you slice Twitter into channels of stuff that matters to you. Once your channels are set they will update in real-time, all in a familiar interface.

Twickie fetches Twitter replies for you and gives you an easy way to view and export them.

Twitter Analyzer provides you with Twitter Statistics and helps you analyze the statistical information.

Topify notifies you by email of your new Twitter followers. You can follow back by just replying to the email.

TwitTrans helps you translate your tweet from any language to any language. Send your tweets to @twitrans like "en2sp". Supported languages are Arabic-ar, Chinese-zh, Dutch-nl, English-en, French-fr, German-de, Greek-el, Hebrew-he, Hindi-hi, Italian-it, Japanese-jp, Portuguese-pt, Russian-ru, Spanish-es.

TwitterFone allows you to tweet with your own voice. Register your mobile phone and call a local number to tweet what you say.

Tweetake allows you to backup your followers and tweets for just-in-case scenarios

Tweetree puts your Twitter stream in a tree so you can see the posts people are replying to in context.

Twilert lets you receive regular email updates of tweets containing your brand, product, service, well any keyword you like really.

HootSuite helps you do a lot more with your Twitter account using its clean web interface.

TwtPoll helps you to create and distribute polls/surveys on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed or on any other social media site.

Tweet3 supports grouping, Facebook, stats, multiple accounts, pretty pictures, trending topics and more.

TwTrip helps you share your travel plans, meet people and plan your next adventure on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed or on any other social media site.

Twitlet is a JavaScript bookmarklet that helps you tweet directly from your browser.

Tweepz helps you search, find and discover interesting people on Twitter.

TwitDir helps you find your friends and more on Twitter in a more simplistic way.

Twitly allows you to group your Twitter followers for your convenience.

Twesents allows you to send virtual gifts to your Twitter friends.

Twitster lets you display tweets on your own web site from everyone you follow in Twitter.

StockTwits helps you discover and share real-time investment ideas.

I hope you find something useful within this collection of free Twitter Apps.

How to push your Twitter updates to Facebook

Twitter is an ultimate marketing and micro blogging sites where you can give any updates regarding your day to day activity or some information about your new blog post or any other important tweets that may be useful for your followers.

Facebook is also a very fast growing social media website which can be used for a marketing purpose.

Suppose you are present both on Twitter and Facebook and if you face any problem in active on both the sites then you don’t need to worry.

There is an application in Facebook known as Twitter application from the help of which you can push your Twitter updates to Facebook.

Login to Facebook> Go to Twitter application page> Allow access> Login with your Twitter username and password. After login all the updates from your friends pulled to an application. You can update your Twitter status from the application page also. Click on the Facebook button “Want to update you Facebook Status? Click here” to grant access to Facebook to updates your Tweets updates on your wall.

So this way you can push your Twitter updates to your feeds. Let me know by your comments if you face any problem regarding setting of application.