Dress up your Tweets with Twitterkeys

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Dress up your Tweets with Twitterkeys

by Lisa Hoover Sep 17th 2008

Are you leaving work early to fly off somewhere with your sweetie? You could Tweet that to your followers on Twitter, or you could tell them, "I'm going to ? out of work early today and hop a ? to Montego Bay with my true ♥."

Adding symbols to Tweets used to involve remembering a whole bunch of keystroke combinations but thanks to TwitterKeys, created by the folks at The Next Web Blog, all you have to do now is cut and paste.

Just drag the TwitterKeys bookmarklet to your toolbar and next time you're looking for a symbol, just click the link to open the directory. Find the symbol you like, copy it (Control + C), then paste it (Control + V) into your Tweet. Pretty sweet.

Two things to note: TweetDeck users will need to change the apps defult font setting to international/utf8 in order to use TweetKeys. Also, Mac users will recognize many of these symbols from the Special Characters set found on OS X. While not all of those characters will work cleanly in Twitter, the ones selected for TwitterKeys will.

Tags: emoticons, icons, symbols, tweets, twitter, twitterkeys

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

vbcvbcvbcvb said 5:16PM on 9-17-2008

Yay, it's an entity list.

DD said 5:05PM on 9-20-2008

Works on Jaiku too. ☺

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