Researchers Are Totes Studying How Ppl Shorten Words On Twitter
Kat Chow, npr.org

Short­en­ing words, swap­ping them out, giv­ing them dif­fer­ent mean­ings — that’s not new. Remem­ber in Mean Girls when the queen bee char­ac­ter, Regi­na George, berat­ed one of her under­lings for try­ing to make the word “fetch” catch…

People are obv shortening words on Twitter due to the nature of the medium, but researchers have discovered that while this may be true in the beginning, certain abbreviations have become mainstays and used across the United States, at least on Twitter.