The FBI's List Of Twitter Slang Is Ridiculous

The FBI's List Of Twitter Slang Is Ridiculous

The Internet has been having a good laugh lately at the FBI. The cloak-and-dagger institution is apparently not only listening to your tweets, but they’re painstakingly cataloguing every time you abbreviate or use slang, LOL.

Participatory news tool MuckRock gained access to the FBI’s list of Twitter slang, thanks to a request made via the Freedom of Information Act.

A list of 2,800 acronyms – many of which are difficult to imagine ever being used – is a major part of the uncovered “Twitter Shorthand” document, The FBI’s 83-page guide to speaking “Twitter”.

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