Welcome to Twitter 101: A guide to all those goofy acronyms

As just about everybody knows, Twitter is fast becoming one of the biggest social networks out there. Heck, even Ashton and CNN were apparently battling it out to be top tweeter. And given that Twitter limits you to just 140 characters, you have to make each one count. As a result, you see lots of shorthand and acronyms in Twitter-land. Some are ones you are probably pretty familiar with if you’ve already been using some kind of IM (that would be “Instant Messenger”), some, maybe not.

In which case, sure is a good thing you’ve got us to help decipher that Twitter-code, huh? Don’t worry, in no time, you’ll be tweeting like a crazybird (Uh…if that’s a good thing). Keep reading for some of the most often used phrases and acronyms you’ll probably be seeing on Twitter and what they mean are as follows: