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Dress up your Tweets with Twitterkeys
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.

If emoticons are so 10 minutes ago for you and you like to express yourself through graphics, Zlango might be your new language of choice. Zlango is a graphical language with over 200 icons consisting of nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. The colors are bright and fun and the icons themselves are witty - especially if you compare them to their smiley face replacements. Right now, you can use Zlango for the web and email, but if you're in Israel, Poland, and the Caribbean, you can use it on your mobile device. The company recently raised $12 million to take the Zlango language global. You never know, 

