While I certainly am not questioning the potential uses of this, it also gives me have horrible flashbacks to the days of using MSN Messenger -- when 75%+ of my contacts felt it necessary to have to at least two smiley faces, three hearts, and a music note on either side of their actual name.
Wow, we launched this like 2 years ago (okay, September 16, 2008 to be exact) at TwitterKeys.com. Was wildly popular for a week or two and then died off.
This is potentially really handy, but it failed my math test:
∃ x | x ∈ ℝ
But, then again, it's Twitter, not Mather.
At first, I asked myself "why shouldn't I just use the character map application built into every (windows) pc?", this may be organized, better, so I realized that the real question is "why is this branded as 'twitter' symbols?"
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I miss the recycling symbols: ♺, ♻, ♲, ♼ and ♽
Useful for "classic" retweets.
There are much more typographically useful symbols. I made a Google spreadsheet to keep track of the ones I use:
‘ ’ “ ” — … • ½ ™ Ⅳ and lots of other ones that are much less useful.
1. Doubleclick character and press Ctrl+C, 2. Open your Twitter and press Ctrl+V
Does not work in Opera (10.52).
Double-clicking the character doesn't always work for me in Opera 10.51 (winXP), but highlighting the character by click-dragging always does.