Cute Characters to Make Twitter Fun!
Ever since we published 30 Ways to Say Thank You for a Re-Tweet, clients have been asking us how we got those cute dingbats into our tweets. Many clients have also wondered how to effectively get a full thought across on Twitter in less than 140 characters, and we think these fun characters help to do that.
How to Save Space With Symbols
Most of the time, we can live with the character limit and find ways to shorten words or URL’s in order to make them more “Twitter-friendly”. But sometimes it helps to have a few tricks up your sleeve in order to get your full point across, and utilize those 140 characters effectively! Using the symbols available is a handy way to quickly convey a phrase, word or term. They take up one character!
- Using a heart symbol ♥ when you want to write “love” saves you 3 characters
- Using a symbol for “recycling” ♺ saves you 8!Using a ✔ for “check” will save you 4 characters.
- Using a smiley face ☺ symbol conveys feelings that could save you several words of space.
Using Pictures to Expand The Meaning
And besides saving your some space in your Tweets, symbols are just a fun and sometimes cute way to convey your point (if cute is what you’re going for).
- Adding stars to your post can bring an extra sparkle: ★ ☆ ★ You’re a star to me! ★ ☆ ★
- Musical notes show you’re happy and singing: ♫ ♪ ♩ I thank you! I thank you! I thank you! ?♫ ♪ ♩ You rock with that RT!
- Icons convey a thought in less characters: The weather today is ☂ not ☼ – ☹ bummer ☹!
How Do I Get These Symbols Into My Tweets?
The obvious way to get these symbols is to find other tweets that use them, and copy and past. But an easier way is to get the Twitterkeys tool for your browser. It’s a tool that provides you with a floating box that contains all of the fun symbols you can use on Twitter. You can get this tool at The Next Web Blog.
If you don’t want to add a tool to your web browser, we’ve created this handy chart of the most popular symbols which you can use to copy and paste symbols into your tweets:
♥ |
☺ |
☻ |
☹ |
✩ |
★ |
❦ |
☮ |
☯ |
✉ |
✝ |
☥ |
✡ |
✈ |
☎ |
☂ |
☃ |
☼ |
☾ |
☠ |
♺ |
✌ |
☛ |
☚ |
☞ |
☜ |
✔ |
✖ |
♀ |
♂ |
❁ |
❀ |
✿ |
✵ |
❆ |
❂ |
☢ |
© |
® |
✂ |
€ |
€ |
$ |
← |
→ |
↑ |
↓ |
⇧ |
❝ |
❞ |
What’s Your Favorite Image Combination?
We’d love to see how creative our readers our. Share with us some of your favorite use of these fun characters! Together we can generate more ideas to make Twitter fun!
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