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What Does FTW Stand For, Anyway?

20 July 2009 10 Comments

In its short but influential history, the acronym “FTW” has stood for many things. In the realm of social media, however, it’s shorthand for “For The Win.”

So, “Social Media FTW” is about using social media marketing to build your business, grow your non-profit or establish you personal brand.

Of course, during the many long nights of planning, riding a Red Bull high, we came up with some other possible answers:

Fabulous Training Workshops
Free The Whales
Fabio The Wicked
Fine Tundra Winters
Find True Wisdom

I’m sure you can come up with your own. In fact, if you have some, why don’t you add them as a comment below. Who knows, maybe the best (clean) answer will get a door prize.

10 Comments »

tripdragon said:

If it has to be used keep it “For The Win”
But it crosses the line of my favorite WTF “What the Fuc$%^&*”

# 20 July 2009 at 9:19 am

Tia Martinson said:

How about Finely Tuned Whistling
or First The What?

# 20 July 2009 at 10:07 am

cascokid said:

Social Media “For the Wonks”

And you’d know that if you were a wonk, but if you didn’t know that — well — do the math, non-wonk! . . .

Except, I don’t think that is the point of the conference.

Perhaps, it is “foster the wonks” suggesting that we’d all be wonkish if we attended.

I could play this game all day. Not unlike social media . . . but now by back to my regularly-scheduled career.

# 20 July 2009 at 11:03 am

Greg Daly said:

I always thought it was F#*K The World. A sort of defiant tonality and such

# 20 July 2009 at 12:14 pm

Julie Bavington said:

I’m gong to stick with Feathers Tickle Weebles.

# 20 July 2009 at 1:44 pm

jakks said:

Freak. The. Wikipedia.

# 21 July 2009 at 6:00 am

MECOlady said:

Forward-Thinking Writers.

# 24 July 2009 at 9:48 am

Bill Thomas said:

hmmmm… could have sworn some guy named Fred told me it was

Fish Taco Wonderland

but, I always thought it meant

Fine Tuned Webstrategy

# 7 August 2009 at 12:02 pm

mitch said:

pretty sure ftw means f@#$ the world could mean a lot of thing

forgot the wings
freaks take waltses

pretty much any word u can match up with the letters that makes half ass sence

but a good one if
for the win

used a lot in gaming so i would say its the latter of the two
f@#$ the world or for the win but im leaning towards F@#$ the world a lot of kids use it and a lot of outkast players like to use it so i would do with the deragatory of the two

# 24 August 2009 at 12:54 am