TwitterKeys is a browser bookmarket that pulls up expressive characters for easy copy & paste of all those crazy unicode symbols that people love to include in their emails and blog posts. Both Mac and Windows give access to these characters in their operating systems (Character Pallette on Mac, Character Map on Windows), but TwitterKeys is an even easier way to find them.
The guys at The Next Web created TwitterKeys as a bookmarklet specifically so they could find characters fast for quick Twitter messages. If you want to add it, just drag this link to TwitterKeys up to your bookmark bar.
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Funky. We’re really going to cram a lot of self-expression into 140 characters!
Twitter apps like Twhirl need to build this into their client.
Who uses a bookmark toolbar?
Well, I do. Makes like much easier.
Exactly. Bookmark toolbars really make life easier and surfing the web a lot faster
This same thing works quite well for Facebook statuses also by the way
infinitely better than enabling graphical emoticons. I hates me some graphical emoticons.
I am not going to forget blogging with this twitter, twitter and twitter!
But actually am addicted and loving it.
I don’t think these work within Twitter clients like TweetDeck and Twhirl - seem to be web only.
Works 100% fine with Twhirl for me. ☺
TwitterKeys is no longer restricted to those characters, there are left and right hand/pointers that you can go on and find more characters.
I don’t think TwitterKeys deserve so much publicity.
Anynow, Twitter now has a new interface and I loved it!
And that is why you give it even more to take the effort to write a reply!
I love the Twitterkeys…
Get a life, dude.
i knew this post was by Mike just by seeing the title in my RSS feed. Mikey get over it already.
business model?
Where’d you get your MBA? Same place you bought your blazer and dress jeans?
hahaha
best comment of the bunch.
Okay, I didn’t get it yesterday when people on Twitter started hyping it and I still don’t get it — what’s the big deal…?! It’s just a list of special characters that you copy and paste into your tweets…!? And most of those are pretty useless anyway…
As has been mentioned, I can achieve the same thing by opening “Special Characters” from the Safari ‘Edit’ menu and copy and paste away…!? It’s not like they really did anything innovative — but I guess it’s enough to stick a “Twitter” label on something to get the buzz…
“I can achieve the same thing by opening “Special Characters” from the Safari ‘Edit’ menu and copy and paste away”
No you can’t. Only a handful of those characters translate well to other platforms. That is why I took a sub-selection of charcters that seem to work well on all standard browsers.
this is one feature that i really like from jaiku.com but twitter doesn’t have yet
doesn’t seem to be funky, just a hype. Anyways, the new design that Twitter has adopted is awesome. It is very neat and simple.
Who will use bookmarks to copy paste these keys. I would rather suggest to have these keys in third party tools for easy accessibility
I agree with what deepak has to say
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A bookmarket is a place you buy books. You are speaking of a bookmarklet, like a chicklet or a towlet.
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Hahaha! Well said!
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♠ ☎ ☻ ♫ ☒
♤ ☤ ☹ ♪ ♀
✩ ✉ ☠ ✔ ♂
★ ✇ ♺ ✖ ♨
❦ ☁ ✌ ♛ ❁
☪ ☂ ✏ ♝ ❀
☭ ☃ ☛ ♞ ✿
☮ ☼ ☚ ♘ ✾
☯ ☾ ☝ ♖ ✽
✝ ☄ ☟ ♟ ✺
☥ ✂ ✍ ♕ ✵
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Google Chrome doesn’t support Unicode, hence all those boxes.
What do these look like over SMS on a non smart phone?
What about if you’re twittersynch’ed via the Twitter app on Facebook? I find even simple characters like < don’t get pulled over correctly.
There’s a GreaseMonkey script which does this automatically and in sooo much more style - http://enhance.qd-creative.co......ey-script/
I prefer the one at http://panmental.de/symbols/
Does the same thing but a bit more sophisticated, with auto-select etc.
http://www.copypastecharacter.com/ does the same thing, a few less characters to choose from, but a much slicker implementation.
Added more features and made it to the Digg front page. Check it out:
http://thenextweb.org/2008/09/.....-48-hours/
More TwitterKeys: http://hvost.org/?p=594