Tech/Web

TwitterKeys allows me to express my inner ☃ ❥♘

Posted on September 18, 2008

Twitter redesigned some stuff. Moved tabs to the side and opened up the design. Personally I like it. The best new ‘tweek’ is the ability to reply to a Direct Message just by clicking a small mail icon on the right-hand side of the message you’d like to reply to.

better DM controls-1

Also, you can spice up your tweets or express the complexity of your emotions with TwitterKeys by the guys at The Next Web, i.e. ❉ ❥ ♘. It’s nothing complicated, just a pop up browser bookmarket of a symbol library where you copy and paste little unicode symbols anywhere, like on Twitter, Facebook or right here, on your blog: ☃.

Or just like, double click & copy n paste these puppies below:

What’s your favourite TwitterKeys symbol?

Lisa Bettany is a world renowned photographer, travel writer & tech entrepreneur. When she is not capturing the beauty of the world or making iPhone apps, she enjoys flying small planes, reading books about Spitfires, hiking in the mountains and drinking tea.

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  • chris
    September 18, 2008 at 8:41 PM

    ಠ_ಠ

  • subcorpus
    September 18, 2008 at 8:42 PM

    i was wondering how kevin rose and the tech guys i follow were doing it coupla days back …
    now we know eh … hehe …
    thanks for sharing …
    testing now …

  • chris
    September 18, 2008 at 10:42 PM

    @pasquale Features schmeatures. It sure looks pretty!

  • MhawSayar
    September 19, 2008 at 3:34 AM

    ☤☤☤☤☤ Thanks a lot Lisa! Very interesting symbols! ☤☤☤☤☤

  • Tyler
    September 19, 2008 at 6:20 AM

    I’ve got mixed feelings about the new redesign ☢

    Oh well, I use twitterific more than the website anyway.

  • Jason
    September 19, 2008 at 8:36 AM

    I like the new layout as it is easy on the eyes and you don’t have to search for things ~ which is my number one pet peeve with websites.

  • Afif Tabish
    September 19, 2008 at 10:27 AM

    I think its pretty badass.
    Its better than the crapy new facebook which I dislike so much.

  • Georg Portenkirchner
    September 19, 2008 at 12:10 PM

    I ♥ it!

  • steve garfield
    September 20, 2008 at 7:26 PM

    Fun! ♥

  • Boris
    September 21, 2008 at 2:12 PM

    ♥ you for mentioning and ☛ to TwitterKeys! Unfortunately not all characters from Character Pallette on Mac & Character Map on Windows work on all browsers. You can see that demonstrated in the first comment where all I see is weird unicode and other people only see a white cube: ಠ

    TwitterKeys is a sub-selection of characters that seem to ✔ fine on all browsers and platforms.

    The safer bet! ☺

  • chris
    September 22, 2008 at 2:44 PM

    @Boris Whoops, sorry. That should look something like what you see at http://icu.tinsanity.net/. There’s more info at http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0ca0/index.htm.

  • chris
    September 22, 2008 at 6:12 PM

    Whoops. ;)

    That was supposed to look like this. It’s a Unicode Character ‘KANNADA LETTER TTHA’ followed by an underscore and another ‘KANNADA LETTER TTHA’ to make a grumpy-looking smiley/emoticon/whatever you want to call it.

  • HvosT
    October 23, 2008 at 3:07 PM

    More TwitterKeys: http://hvost.org/?p=594

  • macpug
    August 10, 2009 at 11:52 PM

    Sort of related: if you’re using an iPhone and you’re one of the six people who don’t have emoji enabled, there’s a cool little webapp called Glyphboard (http://mrgan.com/gb/) that installs an icon on your phone and gives you a page or two of symbols that you can copy and paste into a message. Cheers ☮