TwitterKeys: Enhance your Twitter conversations
| ♥ | ✈ | ☺ | ♬ | ☑ |
| ♠ | ☎ | ☻ | ♫ | ☒ |
| ♤ | ☤ | ☹ | ♪ | ♀ |
| ✩ | ✉ | ☠ | ✔ | ♂ |
| ★ | ✇ | ♺ | ✖ | ♨ |
| ❦ | ☁ | ✌ | ♛ | ❁ |
| ☪ | ☂ | ✏ | ♝ | ❀ |
| ☭ | ☃ | ☛ | ♞ | ✿ |
| ☮ | ☼ | ☚ | ♘ | ✾ |
| ☯ | ☾ | ☝ | ♖ | ✽ |
| ✝ | ☄ | ☟ | ♟ | ✺ |
| ☥ | ✂ | ✍ | ♕ | ✵ |
As you might know Twitter accepts more than just basic text. The service is UTF8 compatible which means that instead of tweeting “I love you” you could just as well use “I ♥ you”. Or how about this:
“I’m going to ✈ to ☭ in the morning after I make a ☎ to make sure my ♂ is ✔ with it. ✌ for now and don’t forget to ✍ and lets have ♨ soon!”
But how do you remember all these damn characters?
Aha!
TwitterKeys is a small tool we (@boris & @sandervdv) developed here at The Next Web Blog which provides you with a floating window with all these funny symbols you can use in Twitter. These are the symbols we currently provide:
Drag this link to your browser
bookmarks toolbar: TwitterKeys
Now go and share this with your friends on Twitter…
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ha! great stuff guys. i’m not sure this will translate to sms but it’s definitely fun.
Good point. I also hear things about it not working on Twitter Apps that aren’t utf8 compatible such as TweetDeck….
Er yes it is – just change the font used from the default one to the international/utf8 one in the TweetDeck settings window
Thanks for commenting Iain!
Why isn’t the international/utf8 setting the standard setting?
it doesnt work for TweetDeck ahmpf !!
Good stuff! Twitter should hire you guys or something :)
One word: nice!
Brilliant! Works well with Twitterific. It will surely fail to translate to sms. But hey, Twitter doesn’t send sms anymore until they manage a better deal with a provider.
Lovely!
Would be a good idea to actually give us an idea on how to use it within Twitter :-)
Did you see the pop-up? Read the description? I can’t make it any easier than this…
Reading? Surely no one does that.
Seriously, though, good idea.
Guys it was a simple request LOL
I added a link in my blog, see I love your product.
http://ernmander.wordpress.com
Glad you ♥ it! ☺
i tried dragging the link to the faves, as u suggest, but its not wking. help.
Works on TwitterFox!
I’d love to see this as some sort of floating DIV using greasemonkey on firefox.
Here you go – http://digg.com/programming/Cool_Characters_in_Twitter_a_GreaseMonkey_script
Don’t forget to Digg while you are here!
http://digg.com/tech_news/Use_these_symbols_in_Twitter_to_up_your_Tweets
And/Or comment/vote here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=306300 and
Check out these Tweets:
Biz Stone (Twitter Co-Founder)
http://twitter.com/biz/statuses/923898532
Howard Rheingold
http://twitter.com/hrheingold/statuses/923879515
Evan Williams (Twitter Co-Founder)
http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/923901604
and a lot more here:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=twitterkeys
Wooooow … great symbols
thanks a lot
Oh, this is just too cute ☺ Thanks! ✿
You can also use the built in Kana keyboard on the iphone. I made a quick tutorial video on http://socialmediablender.com showing how to enable this on your iPhone.
@SIGEPJEDI
Boris – you totally ROCK! Thanks heaps for this fun little gizmo to add even more joy to my tweets. I’ve been known to use plenty musical notes ♪♫, hearts ♥, and sunshine ☼ (via alt-codes.net), but your collection is the BEST!!! ☺
Cheers,
Mari
@marismith
Excellent idea!
wish there were more and better icons… kinda weird choices here, but like the idea for the mst part
That is GREAT! I’ve been wondering how people were putting musical notes in their twitter posts. This will be my new favorite toy. Thanks!
Great work guys
This is fun! Another great way to waste time with Twitter. Just tried it; works great. ✌
Laura Christianson
co-founder, HeBlogsSheBlogs.com
This is a good idea.
But, if you are on a Mac, you already have access to the Character Palette which is faster, easier, and provides hundreds of characters.
I put up a blog post on this to help document how you set-up easy access to it. Post is at http://is.gd/2JVd
Hope this helps.
☮☺♽ ⌚4☕
The reason I would advise against that is that there are a LOT of icons in the Character Palette that don’t display well on a PC. I tried all characters in the Character Palette and tested them on Windows (in several browsers) and came up with a sub-selection that works well everywhere.
If you ONLY twitter with friends who ALL own Macintoshes than the Character Palette is fine…
I noticed a lot of ☺ icons today, and wondered where the fuzz was about… great work guys!
Works all right with Yoono !
Although these characters do not stand well to be displayed in small font ☹
I agree. It’s very hard to even tell what they are when they are so small.
Hoping for a twhirl integration ;)
Even better – if you’re on a Mac with Safari or FireFox click the Edit menu and choose “Special Characters”. More selection and built-in. The characters used in TwitterKeys are in the Misc symbols category in the palette.
As explained above in an earlier comment not all characters work on all platforms. The TwitterKeys Palette contains a sub-selection with characters that DO work everywhere.
Also, even if you make the Character Palette as small as possible it is STILL twice as wide as the TwitterKeys Palette…
Thanks – this is a handy resource. :)
Although for whatever reason I’m not seeing the heart… it’s just displaying as a pipe ( | ) both at home and work (both Mac).
Actually, it *does* work at the office. So I’m thinking it’s an OS 10.3 issue only. And I’m going to upgrayedd at home soon… so it’s all good.
Ack!
Getting the dreaded box of death on my iphone Safari and RSS reader.
Great concept though….
…but this will appear how for the people following you on mobile?
so which symbol is there going to be for video — this is funny – its a list of the most popular videos on twitter — kinda what i thought — politics and cats
http://www.snackfeed.com/public/twitter
80% of the characters are garbage on FF 3.0.1.
I have FF 3.0.1. and 100% of the characters look good here.
i think not about browser, but operating system. in my pc (win xp sp2) in ff, ie 7, chrome the symbol not show all
I’m with my good friend Mari Smith (above) on this! Your symbols are the best!! Woo hoo! Will be using them lots for sure!
One question, is there any way of making a Video or film strip type icon??? I would so love one sooooo much as i tweet lots with video emails and would be fab to have a cool symbol for this…
I have updated the TwitterKeys Palette. It now has a second page (links on the bottom) with more TwitterKeys including this one:
✇
It looks like an old fashioned movie reel. You could use that for video links…
That’s really great!!
Thanks a million!
I’d love to have some hot springs when you’re back from the soviet union!
You mean “I’d ♥ to have some ♨ when you’re ☜ from the ☭!” right?
Well, the joke doesn’t really work without the “hot springs”, because people don’t realize they ♲ the ♨ character to mean “coffee” or some other hot drink, when the ☕ character does exist (fwiw, its name is “HOT BEVERAGE”).
“I’d ♥ to have some ☕, preferably while relaxing in a ♨ when you’re ☜ from the ☭!” ;-)
The article also seems to use ✔ instead of √. Though “make sure my ♂ is √ with it” would still read wrong (“make sure my man is square root with it”). Unfortunately most people wound read “make sure my ♂ is ² with it” wrong.
Curious that the pallet doesn’t include all of the card suits: ♥♦♣♠. Any font that has ♠ is very likely to have all four.
And i can’t help but wonder if he mistook ✇ (tape reel) for ☢ (radioactivity).
Oh. maybe he meant ✔ to be read as “ok”. (I read it as “check”.)
Here is my story about what happened in the first 48 hours AFTER I posted this story:
http://thenextweb.org/2008/09/18/twitterkeys-the-first-48-hours/
You can get the latest update there too and read all about how it reached 100.000 people within only a few hours…
Awesome contribution, excellent
Thanks so much… Love them!
This site twitter and these little icons make my business rock!!!
Hi folks – I love these, but they are so very, very tiny! Any way to make them a bit larger?
So I looked up the characters in the example and translated them to English:
“I’m going to airplane to hammer and sickle in the morning after I make a black telephone to make sure my male sign is heavy check mark with it. Victory hand for now and don’t forget to writing hand and lets have hot springs soon!”
In particular, unless you really meant to go have hot springs with someone, you probably should use ☕ to mean coffee…
Silly. Completely silly. Not to mention pointless.
I love it.
Well 90% do not display for me. Missing font?
I found the font, here is the url. File is 1.5mb I saw some other guy had the same problem and recommended a torrent size 22mb. Anyways i would not try that torrent. You have to restart browser after copied to windows/fonts.
http://code.google.com/p/ipwn/downloads/detail?name=arialuni.ttf&can=2&q=
美着嘞
I’m not seeing all of the symbols. What fonts am I missing? I’ve already installed the font posted on the previous comment above but there are symbols that are still not displaying correctly.
Great little bookmarklet. I’ve taken it a little further (based on all the characters you’ve found) and turned it in to a Greasemonkey script for Firefox so I can post updates, and it will automatically convert keywords like ‘love’ to ♥ as I type:
http://remysharp.com/2008/09/22/autocomplete-even-better-twitter-keys/
Cheers!
Including bookmarklet!
Doesn’t work in twitterberry…well, some do, but not all.
I’m also having an issue with fonts.
To be more specific, when I went to the Autocomplete Twitterkeys app above and looked at the list of all autocomplete keys, I’m missing the following symbols: boxtick, box, carrot, sad and the two yellow sad faces below that, pirate, cloud, king, islam, umbrella, bishop, tools, snowman, darkman, peace, and the left-pointing arrow below that (that I think should be a pointing hand), knight, rook, comet, pawn, prince, queen, recycle, retweet, rt, radioactive.
In total it seems I’m missing about 1/3 of the total twitterkeys characters. The above list was from the autocomplete app only.
I did install the Arial UniCode Hebrew from above (thank you for that). I also know I’m missing the Asian languages UniCode (can’t find my WinXP installer CD anywhere – what? it’s been 5 years!) and I’m wondering if not having that group of fonts is hampering my twitterkeys experience.
Suggestions are welcome and appreciated! I just want full functionality. ☺
Oh oh oh, were zo’n voorbeeld van beter goed gejat dan slecht verzonnen mannen? Zit jullie wel in het bloed he… potverdikkie, ontzettende trendsetters (trendjatters?)
http://www.copypastecharacter.com (geregistreerd op 2 Sept., jaja 14 dagen voor dit idee geblogd werd)
Mooi hoor!
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Let me translate this in English too, just to make sure the international audience gives credit where credit is due…
I find it rather tasteless that they would not credit the original creator of the idea, Martin Strom (who twittered about it on Sept. 5th) So… herewith…
The cool site referenced above (and registered/launched a full 2 weeks before the ‘genius’ twitterkeys release) came up with the elegant copy/paste solution.
Of course this could all be serendipitous, though based on the track record of TheNextWeb crew, it’s pretty safe to assume they saw a good idea, changed it slightly to make it their own, and through ceaseless self-promotion won ‘world-wide’ acclaim in the blogosphere (not in the least via techcrunch is at the center of this circle-jerk).
LH
I would have had no problem at all with ‘improving’ on copypastecharacter.com which simply sucks and would have enjoyed saying so if I would have known about it.
Fortunately the owners of copypastecharacter.com left comments pointing to their site on almost every blog that wrote about TwitterKeys so I’m sure they got their share of traffic too.
The point you make is very interesting though. What exactly makes a service worthwhile and bloggable? being first obviously is no guarantee to success. being remarkable and having access to other bloggers is more important.
I can’t get all the characters to load – I end up with just a few options. Any suggestions?
Hey -
Cavemen used symbols to communicate. What are we going backwards in life? Use words to get your message across.
HANDY !
Nice work, thanks to you !
It would be nice if it did not pop up a separate window and just did an overlay like the bit.ly bookmarklet.
Congratulations on finding out about Unicode! Have you heard about IPv6 yet?
We all know about UTF8 and IPv6. This tool is about making it more accessible for everybody. You might be smart enough to know about IPv6 but apparently not smart enough to see that.
What do the rectangular boxes with numbers in them stand for? I have been trying to figure this out for days and it is driving me crazy. For example, ☫ ☬ and ☬
Hi Pete, not every browser supports UTF8 which you need to display these characters. Looks like your browser is either too new (Firefox beta?) or too old…
I don’t know what you are saying. I get these symbols from some people when I am on twitter and don’t know what they mean.
I am using Firefox 3.3 on a MAC
They have a whole list of them on Twitter keys. Just trying to interpret what they stand for.
If you look above nothing much is using them in a sentence.
Well, I’m not seeing rectangular boxes with numbers but small drawings. That is what your friends see too. Here is an example of how TwitterKeys should display:
http://img.skitch.com/20081012-jrbrrkthk6sqe5s1ux1r2bbtqe.jpg
The latest official FireFox for Mac version is 3.0.3. The 3.3 version you are using is most likely a nightly build that doesn’t support UTF8.
OK now I see what you are saying from the display you sent me. What I see on my Twitter keys are a box with numbers in them.
I am using Firefox 3.0.3. Sorry. I don’t understand all the coding you are talking about like UTF8. Your pick of the symbols really explains it to me though that I am simply not seeing the characters but the coding. Is that correct.
Sorry for being so dense and being a pain about it.
Is it the fact that I am on a MAC or don’t have fonts needed loaded or my browser then.
Thanks for taking so much time answering. I was afraid I was offending you or something.
No problem at all! The whole point of TwitterKeys is that you don’t have to know what UTF8 is! Something some people clearly didn’t understand. I am personally using Firefox 3.0.3 on a Mac as my main browser and it works fine here. The only thing I can think of is that for some reason your Firefox is set to non UTF8. Try this:
Go to meny bar “View” then down to “Character Encoding” and select “Unicode (UTF8)” from the option list. See if that helps…
Hmmm tried that and it didn’t work. So all this time I just haven’t been seeing the characters displayed correctly. How weird.
Do you think using suitcase fusion or not having some font in my system folder that is doing it?
When you get sick of me asking you questions, just tell me to leave you alone!
It could be a Suitcase problem yes. Haven’t used that in years so I’m not sure. Too bad because you are not just using TwitterKeys but lots of other texts on other sites too…
Very interesting idea. Bring utf-8 to the people!
I was looking for an example to illustrate a quick bookmarklet tutorial I made. I took your twitterKeys and made a different version, I hope you don’t mind.
KeyU8: http://www.yoursiteisvalid.com/validnews/utf-8-special-char-bookmarklet-twitter-keys-reloaded-394.html
Note: it’s not cross browser but works with Firefox and Chrome that’s for sure.
Great tutorial! Thanks for the link…
I too am missing fonts apparently. I am using Firefox 3.0.3 and have installed the font listed in the comment above.
Before that, I was only seeing about 20% of the symbols and now I’m at about 50%.
Here’s what it looks like when I open Twitterkeys now:
http://www.smomashup.com/images/twitterkeys-font-missing-utf8.gif
This has been quite annoying to meas I’ve been seeing these little blocks with numbers in them on Twitter and have no idea what people are talking about. Feel like I’ve lost my little decoder ring.
Can anyone help?
Thanks!
Greg that is exactly how mine looks on this mac. I can’t figure it out. I have suitcase fusion on this mac. I opened it on an older emac that I have without fusion and all the symbols show.
Tried matching what fonts I had there compared to this mac and still can’t get this one to see all of them.
I love that explanation of “Feel like I’ve lost my little decoder ring.” and I hate it when I can’t figure something out…
Well at home I got it to work about 95%. Here at work, I installed the same font pack.. and I’m maybe @65%. Mostly this means if more computer savvy people are having problems with this then imagine all the tons of people who are just looking at boxes of numbers with no clue what’s going on. In effect it could render something like this, fairly useless.
More TwitterKeys: http://hvost.org/?p=594