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IRC Acronyms On Twitter

Twitter is coming ahead in leaps and bounds. With all the updated additions that have been added to twitter over the last month or so like; Groups, Lists, and Retweeting.

But it seems that allot of the Acronyms that are showing up on twitter all started on IRC. So I thought I would make a list. Add a comment if you want to add one and ill add it in :-)

IRC Twitter Acronyms Meaning
YES YES addy address (as in eMail)
YES NO ADN Any Day Now
YES YES AFAIK As Far As I Know
YES YES AFK Away From Keyboard
YES YES AKA Also Known As (also a/k/a)
YES NO ARE Acronym
YES NO ATM According To Me
NO YES ATM At the Moment
YES YES ATTN Attention
YES YES BAK Back At the Keyboard
YES NO BBIAB Be Back In A Bit
YES YES BBL Be Back Later
YES YES BBS Be Back Soon
YES NO <BEG> Big Evil Grin
YES NO BFD Big F***ing Deal
YES NO BFN Bye For Now (also B4N)
YES NO <BG> big grin
YES NO BIF Basis In Fact
YES NO BION Believe It Or Not
YES NO BIOYIOP Blow It Out Your I/O Port
YES NO BL Belly Laughing
YES YES BRB Be Right Back
YES NO BTA But Then Again…
YES NO BTSOOM Beats The Sh*t Out Of Me
YES YES BTW By The Way
YES YES CU see you
YES YES CUA Commonly Used Acronym(s) or Common User Access
YES NO CUL see you Later (also CUL8ER)
YES NO CWYL Chat With Ya Later
YES YES CYA see Ya
YES NO CYO see You Online
YES YES DBA Doing Business As (also d/b/a)
YES NO DFLA Disenhanced Four
YES NO DIKU Do I Know You?
YES NO DITYID Did I Tell You I’m Distressed?
YES NO DTRT Do The Right Thing
YES NO <eg> Evil Grin
YES NO EMFBI Excuse Me For Butting In
YES YES EOM End Of Message (no comments)
YES NO EOT End Of Thread (end of discussion)
YES NO ETLA Enhanced Three
YES YES F2F Face to Face
YES YES FAQ (list of) Frequently Asked Question(s)
YES NO FISH First In
YES NO FLA Four
YES NO FOMCL Falling Off My Chair Laughing
YES NO FUBAR F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition
YES NO FUD (spreading) Fear
YES NO FWIW For What It’s Worth
YES NO FYA For Your Amusement
YES NO FYEO For Your Eyes Only
YES NO FYI For Your Information
YES NO <g> grin (<G>
YES NO GA Go Ahead
YES NO GAL Get A Life!
YES NO GIGO Garbage In
YES NO GIWIST Gee
YES NO GMTA Great Minds Think Alike
YES NO GOL Giggling Out Loud
YES NO GR&D Grinning
YES NO GTRM Going To Read Mail
YES NO HHOK Ha Ha
YES NO HHOS Ha Ha
YES NO HNG Horny Net Geek
YES NO HTD Have To Disagree…
YES NO HTH Hope This Helps
YES NO HTHBE Hope This Has Been Enlightening
YES NO IAC In Any Case
YES NO IAE In Any Event
YES NO IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer
YES NO IC I see
YES NO ICAM I Couldn’t Agree More
YES NO ICOWHMGOWYHH I Can Only Wonder How Many Glasses Of Wine You Have Had
YES NO ID I Disagree
YES NO IHA I Hate Acronyms
YES NO IIRC If I Remember Correctly
YES YES ILY I Love You (also ILU)
YES NO IMAO In My Arrogant Opinion
YES NO IMCO In My Considered Opinion
YES NO IMHO In My Humble Opinion
YES NO IMNSHO In My Not So Honest Opinion
YES NO IMO In My Opinion
YES NO INC Illegitimi Non Carborundum (Latin: don’t let the b*stards
wear you down)
YES NO IOW In Other Words
YES NO IPN I’m Posting Naked
YES NO IRL In Real Life (that is
YES NO IRT In Real Time
YES NO ITA I Totally Agree!
YES NO ITRW In The Real World
YES NO JAT Just A Thought
YES YES JFU Just For You
YES YES JIC Just In Case
YES YES JK Just Kidding (also j/k)
YES NO JMHO Just My Humble Opinion
YES NO JMO Just My Opinion
YES NO KWIM? Know What I Mean?
YES YES L8R Later (also L8TR)
YES YES LBAY Laughing Back At You
YES NO LD Later
YES NO LDR Long
YES NO LLTA Lots and Lots of Thunderous Applause
YES YES LMAO Lauging My Ass Off
YES YES LOL Laughing Out Loud or Lots Of Luck
YES YES LOLBAY Laughing Out Loud Back At You
YES YES LTM Laugh To Myself
YES YES LTNS Long Time
YES YES M/F? Male or Female? (also MorF)
YES NO MEGO My Eyes Glazed Over (booorrring)
YES NO MHOTY My Hat’s Off To You
YES NO MINK Multiple Income
YES NO mm merrily met (greeting)
YES NO MMHA2U My Most Humble Apologies to you
YES NO MOOS Member Of the Opposite Sex (also MOTOS)
YES NO MOSS Member Of the Same Sex (also MOTSS)
YES NO MOTD Message Of The Day
YES NO mp merrily parted (farewell)
YES NO MUD Multi
YES NO NBIF No Basis In Fact
YES NO NBIR No Basis In Reality (where am I; is this Kansas?)
YES NO NFW No F*cking Way
YES YES NP No Problem
YES NO NRN No Reply Necessary
YES NO NS ‘Nuff Said
YES YES OIC Oh
YES NO OLL On
YES YES OMG Oh My God!
YES NO OOTB Out Of The Box (brand new
YES NO OPM Other People’s Money
YES NO OTF On The Floor
YES NO OTOH On The Other Hand
YES NO OTOOH On The Other
YES NO OTP On The Phone
YES NO OTTH On The Third Hand
YES NO OTTOMH Off The Top Of My Head
YES NO ::POOF:: goodbye (leaving the chatroom)
YES NO PANS Pretty Awesome New Stuff (as opposed to POTS)
YES NO PC Politically Correct (or Personal Computer)
YES NO PCMCIA People Can’t Master Computer Industry Acronyms (Personal
Computer Memory Card Int’l. Ass’n.)
YES NO PDA Public Display of Affection
YES NO PDQ Pretty Darn Quick
YES NO PEBCAK Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard
YES NO PI or PIC Politically Incorrect
YES NO PITA Pain In The A**
YES NO PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In (but eventually
YES NO PMJI Pardon My Jumping In
YES NO POTS Plain Old Telephone Service (or Pretty Old Tired Stuff)
YES NO POV Point Of View
YES NO PPL Peed Pants Laughing or People
YES NO PU that stinks!
YES NO PUTS Playing Under The Sofa
YES YES r are
YES NO re regarding or hello again
YES YES RL Real Life (that is
YES NO ROAR! laughing as loud as a lion
YES YES ROFL Rolling On Floor
YES NO ROTFLMAOWPIMP Rolling On The Floor
YES NO ROTFLMBHO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Bloody Head Off
YES NO ROTFLMBO Rolling On The Floor
YES NO RP Romantic Partner
YES NO RPG Role
YES NO RSN Real Soon Now (often ironic)
YES YES RTFM Read The F*cking Manual (or Message)
YES NO RW Real World (outside cyberspace)
YES NO RYO Roll Your Own (write your own program)
YES NO <seg> Sh*t
YES NO SHOUTING Not an acronym; it’s bad netiquette to leave Caps Lock on.
SHOUTING IS HARD TO READ.
YES NO SINK Single Income
YES NO SITD Still In The Dark
YES NO sm smiley
YES NO SNAFU Situation Normal
YES NO SO Significant Other
YES NO SOL Smiling Out Loud or Sadly
YES NO SOMY Sick Of Me Yet?
YES NO STD Sick To Death (a term of disdain
YES NO STS Sorry To Say
YES NO TAF That’s All
YES NO TAFN That’s All For Now
YES NO TANSTAAFL There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
YES NO TAT Tête
YES NO TCN Take Care Now
YES NO TFH Thread From Hell (a discussion that just won’t die)
YES NO TFI The Fact Is …
YES NO TFM Thanks From Me
YES NO TFMT Thanks From Me
YES NO TGIF Thank God It’s Friday
YES YES THX Thanks
YES NO TIA Thanks In Advance
YES NO TIC Tongue In Cheek
YES NO TIG This Is Great!
YES NO TIIC The Idiots In Charge
YES NO TLA Three
YES NO TPTB The Powers That Be
YES NO TTFN Ta Ta For Now
YES NO TTYL Talk To You Later (or TLK2UL8R or TYL)
YES NO TXS Thanks! (sincere and heartfelt
YES NO TYSM Thank You So Much
YES NO TYVM Thank You Very Much
YES YES u you
YES NO UAPITA You’re A Pain In The A**
YES NO unPC Politically Incorrect
YES NO <VBG> very big grin
YES NO <VBSEG> Very Big Sh*t
YES NO VWP Very Well Put
YES NO W4W Word for Word
YES NO WAGS What A Great Story!
YES NO WAI What An Inspiration!
YES YES WB Welcome Back
YES NO WDALYIC Who Died And Left You In Charge?
YES NO WFM Works For Me
YES NO WIBNI Wouldn’t It Be Nice If…
YES NO WP Well Put
YES YES WT? What/Who The…?
YES YES WTF What The F*ck?
YES YES WTG Way To Go
YES NO WTGP? Want To Go Private?
YES NO WTS With That Said
YES NO WU? What’s Up?
YES NO WUF? Where are you From?
YES NO WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
YES YES XOXO kisses and hugs
YES YES XX kisses
YES NO Y2K Year 2000 calendar concerns
YES NO YAAG You Are A Genius
YES NO YABR You Are Being Replaced
YES NO YGBSM You’ve Gotta Be Sh*ttin’ Me!
YES NO YMMV Your Mileage May Vary
YES NO YRR You ‘R’ Right (I give…)
YES YES YVMW You’re Very Much Welcome

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