The Most Popular Acronyms on Twitter

Twitter’s tight character-count limit can lead to a lot of brevity in speech. Expressing ideas needs to be done succinctly, and as such, acronyms like LOL, OMG and IDK are very popular. A study conducted by We Are Social ranks the top 50 social acronyms.

The study tracked the most commonly used acronyms on Twitter over a period of three months. During that period 610 million mentions contained the acronyms, and LOL was far and away the winner, with over 263 million mentions.

It’s possible that much hilarity was generated, but more likely, LOL has just become a standard response on the Internet.