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Twitter, do you speak it?

What's the meaning of the strange punctuation you find on Twitter these days? DLB helps you speak like a native by deciphering some Twitter shorthand.

Because Twitter’s features were designed to be accessible via SMS codes, the service can be pretty unintuitive without a little study.

Twitter uses a special command syntax, both internal to the application as well as through other services using the API. If you encounter some text with a strange prefix applied, and it doesn’t read like typical TXT-speak, that’s probably what you’re looking at. Today we'll cover a few that you're likely to run across.

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NickOct 16, 2008