{"id":4163,"date":"2008-09-22T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T11:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=4163"},"modified":"2020-04-06T09:52:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T04:22:31","slug":"unicode-symbols-in-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/09\/unicode-symbols-in-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Insert Unicode Symbols in Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to see some top Twitter users display cool symbols in their tweets and impress their followers. Here is the little secret about how to insert those<strong> special characters and unicode symbols<\/strong> into your twitter posts too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4165\" title=\"Twitter Symbols\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitter-symbols.gif\" alt=\"Twitter Symbols\" width=\"187\" height=\"97\" align=\"right\" \/>The guys at the Next Web created a simple tool called TwitterKeys, available as\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:(function(){f='http:\/\/thenextweb.org\/TwitterKeys\/keys.php';a=function(){if(!window.open(f+'?noui=1&amp;jump=doclose','twitterkeys','height=540,width=234,title=no,location=no,scrollbars=no,menubars=no,navigation=no,statusbar=no,directories=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menuBar=no'))location.href=f+'?jump=yes'};if(\/Firefox\/.test(navigator.userAgent)){setTimeout(a,0)}else{a()}})()\">this bookmarklet<\/a> (which you can drag to your browser bookmark toolbar, and click to use), which provides you with a floating window with all these <strong>funny symbols<\/strong> you can use in Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>This is possible because Twitter is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UTF8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UTF8<\/a> compatible and these symbols are part of your operating system (Character Palette on Mac, Character Map on Windows), but TwitterKeys just makes it easier to grab them.<\/p>\n<p>Once you click the bookmarklet on a Twitter screen, a big pop window appears with all these unicode symbols. Double click on the desired symbol, copy (CTRL+C) and paste (CTRL+V) in the Twitter post form. That&#8217;s it. Amuse your readers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pchere\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Unicode in Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitterkeys.gif\" alt=\"Unicode in Twitter\" width=\"468\" height=\"57\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to see some top Twitter users display cool symbols in their tweets and impress their followers. Here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,111],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-4163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-social-media","tag-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}