The Most Popular Textspeak Abbreviations in America
Mar 9, 2023
Textspeak abbreviation is about both what you say and how you say it — all rolled into 2–4 plain letters.
It’s an efficient labor-saving technology and a powerful ‘new’ form of communication.
But where is all this power located? WordTips decided to trawl Twitter to find out which parts of America are using which initialisms the most.
WordTips analyzed more than 18 million geotagged tweets across every state and the 50 biggest cities, and then calculated the average number of tweets (per 100,000) that contain common textspeak abbreviations. They also analyzed the usage rate of abbreviations by state compared to the national average to find each state’s most uniquely popular initialism.
