Handy Twitter abbreviations
Hanging out on Twitter can be pretty fun, but there are a lot of abbreviations to get your head around.
Lexy Savvides Principal Video Producer
Lexy is an on-air presenter and award-winning producer who covers consumer tech, including the latest smartphones, wearables and emerging trends like assistive robotics. She's won two Gold Telly Awards for her video series Beta Test. Prior to her career at CNET, she was a magazine editor, radio announcer and DJ. Lexy is based in San Francisco.
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- Webby Award honoree, 2x Gold Telly Award winner
Hanging out on Twitter can be pretty fun, but there are a lot of abbreviations to get your head around.
You may be familiar with the most common, "RT", which is to retweet someone's message. But there's also "MT", which means the tweet has been modified or paraphrased from the original.
"DM" is a direct message to privately talk to someone without your whole stream watching. "HT" is to give someone a hat tip to thank another Twitter user or give them credit. And "CC" is just like email: carbon copy, or to bring a tweet to another user's attention.
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