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41 points by aprescott on Nov 25, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 13 comments



Glossary of common abbreviations from http://blog.tweetsmarter.com/retweeting/retweet-glossary-syn...

RT Short for “Retweet.” This is even sometimes spelled out instead of abbreviated. via Similar to HT or MRT (below), via has lately simply become more of a catchall, often seen simply as an alternative to using “RT.” But ideally, it indicates a modified tweet.

HT “Hat tip” This is a way of thanking the person who brought something to your attention. It’s sometimes used interchangeably with MRT (see #3 below).

MRT or MT Short for “Modified (re)tweet,” this usually indicates that you’ve edited the retweet a little, otherwise only a very small amount of editing can justify sticking with a regular “RT.”

IRT Short for “In reply to” or “In response to” (or very rarely “Ironic Retweet”).

OH “Overheard.” Similar to HT if attributing to a specific Twitter username. Otherwise, just another popular Twitter acronym

/by The preferred method for author attribution. Sometimes used with no slash, e.g. “Great article by @user”

/cc This is just a way of including another username in a tweet so they will be notified of it. It comes from the email cc standard to send a “copy” of the email to another person. “CC” originally stood for “carbon copy,” coming from the old business letter-writing standard. Also commonly used with no slash, e.g. “I love this pic [link] cc @user1, @user2″

ta (British) or Ty (American) is slang for “Thank you” that some use: “[Tweet text and link, if any] ta @user”

QT Means “quoted tweet,” favored by Japanese Twitter users.


Good reference, maybe I'll incorporate some of that. :)


Don't use "RT". Use proper retweeting.


RT is still useful when you want to add a comment. For example...

There are exceptions to this, but generally agree RT @natesm Don't use "RT". Use proper retweeting.


I typically see that done like this in my Twitter crowd...

> There are exceptions to this, but generally agree "@natesm Don't use 'RT'. Use proper retweeting."


I see both pretty evenly, I prefer the RT way personally, but both work for sure.


I wondered how to handle native retweeting, given that it doesn't show up as anything other than the original tweet just in a different timeline. I ended up just including "RT" as a convention, but it could probably go in as a section or something.


No reference to stock tags? i.e. $AAPL


Should certainly be added now that Twitter supports it.


Another one that I see every once in a while is the ^SIGNED - when an account has multiple users they sign it with '^' and their name or initials.

Example: https://twitter.com/bing/status/1955295086 https://twitter.com/bing (the bio mentions ^nb and ^nm)


Where is the full Info manual?


Misses direct messages?

The ones that start with "d @username" or "dm @username"


another popular syntax is the MT: Modified Tweet




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