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How to bling your tweets with special characters.

By Brij ⋅ May 14, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

I was  playing with special characters in Mail application and realized there are many creative ways to  overcome 140 character constraint in Twitter. I must add that I love that constraint. It's right there as one of the top reasons I like using Twitter. It's part mental challenge, part expression tool.

Since I mostly tweet from mail client so symbol selection feature is easily available to me. If you are using other cool tools like Twhirl or AlertThing, then you will have to do little bit of copy/paste and related keyboard gymnastics.

Screenshots best explain how to do this.

Open your Mail client ( I have taken Apple Mail example, but I am sure similar options are available in Thunderbird and Outlook). Browser based mail clients don't support this.

Select Special Character option and open Character Palette

Fun part is in exploring different special characters. Given enough patience, there is plenty of opportunity to bling your tweets. Currency symbols and misc symbols sections look useful to me.

Now go and bling your tweets

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