100+ Most Used Internet Abbreviations & Acronyms for Texting and Tweeting

Posted On February 17, 2019

In this modern world of social media and the Internet where everything is being shared and reshared online millions of times every hour is just fascinating. Smartphones have boosted this trend multiple times. Internet abbreviations and slangs play a huge role in this game. These abbreviations and acronyms have become the language of the Internet.

Everybody is writing about something online or sending messages to someone. Whether it’s on Twitter, in chat rooms, text messages, or through messenger apps, the use of internet abbreviations and acronyms is very common. Some people use internet Acronyms due to the limitation of character count (like 280 words in Twitter), some send shorthand words to cop-up with the pace of life, and some use them just out of laziness. But they have grown so popular that every next person uses them and surprisingly most of the recipients know what these internet abbreviations or acronyms mean. Still, some internet users struggle to understand the meaning of a message from a friend when that friend sends a jargon of letters out of the blue.

Some acronyms are more commonly used than others like FYI, ASAP, AMA, OMG, LOL, FB, XOXO, BTW, and IMO etc. But still, there are many whose meanings are not knows to everybody. So here I will share a comprehensive list of more than 100 Internet Abbreviations & Acronyms which are most popular in the Internet language for texting, tweeting and making posts on FB.

How to differentiate between Abbreviations and Acronyms?

What is Abbreviation?

An abbreviation (from Latin brevi³re → brevis meaning “short”) is a shortened form of a word or phrase which is used to represent the whole word in the lesser number of letters. It usually ends with a Full-stop(.).

For example- abbreviation can itself be represented by the abbreviation abbr., abbrv., or abbrev.

What is Acronym?

An acronym (from Latin “acro-” meaning “beginning” + “-onym” meaning “word, name”) is a pronounceable abbreviation formed from the initial letters (but not always) of complete words.

For example- RAdio Detecting And Ranging is known by acronym RADAR, ASAP= As Soon As Possible

100+ Most Used Internet Abbreviations & Acronyms for Texting and Tweeting