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1. Sep 16, 2008: The New Media Diva » TwitterKeys: No birdie though

   [...] Next Web Blog has just announced a cute little tool called TwitterKeys. Drag a little javascript bookmark to your browser, click it and you get a pop-up window with symbols you can include in your Tweets. [...]

2. Sep 17, 2008: Aggiungi Twitterkeys (piccole immagini) ai tuoi messaggi su Twitter. « La Tartaruga Tecnologica

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4. Sep 18, 2008: Twitterkeys - Must have for Twitter « Shawz Weblog

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5. Sep 18, 2008: links for 2008-09-18 « General Musing

   [...] TwitterKeys: Enhance your Twitter conversations (tags: twitter socialnetworking socialmedia twitterkeys utf8 unicode typography symbols) [...]

6. Sep 18, 2008: TwitterKeys: the first 48 hours…

   [...] little more than 24 hours ago we posted a bookmarklet here titled TwitterKeys and then all hell broke loose. Here is what happened before we launched it and what has happened [...]

7. Sep 19, 2008: TwitterKeys: Más expresiones en pocas palabras « [Pixelaris]

   [...] desarrollado por The Next Web Blog y cuya instalación es [...]

8. Sep 19, 2008: I ♥ TwitterKeys

   [...] guys at The Next Web created TwitterKeys as a bookmarklet specifically so they could find characters fast for quick [...]

9. Sep 19, 2008: I ♥ TwitterKeys

   [...] guys at The Next Web created TwitterKeys as a bookmarklet specifically so they could find characters fast for quick [...]

10. Sep 19, 2008: I (hearts) TwitterKeys! | iMod

    [...] posts. Both Mac and Windows give access to these characters in their operating systems , however TwitterKeys is an even easier way to find [...]

11. Sep 19, 2008: TwitterKeys « Twitter Apps

    [...] Apps « TwitterMyFlickr TwitterKeys September 19, 2008 TwitterKeys - little symbols to “enhance your Twitter”. Add the TwitterKeys bookmarklet to your [...]

12. Sep 19, 2008: Для красивого ввода | Решила Вонасах

    [...] из TheNextWeb в лице давнего знакомого Бориса, сделали удобную штуку для Твиттера и не только. Попробовал этим [...]

13. Sep 19, 2008: Anonymous

    [...] عزیزی به نام Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten که در وبسایت  the NEXT web در آخرین ارسال خودشون مطلبی رو در رابطه با امکاناتی که UTF8 در اختیار ما [...]

14. Sep 21, 2008: Weekly blog posts (weekly) « Lelapin’s Weblog

    [...] TwitterKeys: Enhance your Twitter conversations [...]

15. Sep 21, 2008: Enquanto eu estava de férias… | Serendipidade - Blogando descobertas por acaso desde 2005

    [...] No Twitter todo mundo parece estar escutando ♫ agora. Ainda mais, podem fazer várias coisas… ✈ ☎ [...]

16. Sep 22, 2008: Jonnotie » Using speacial characters in photoshop layer names

    [...] The Next Web blog came up with a tool called TwitterKeys. There you can find tons of useful [...]

17. Sep 22, 2008: How to Insert Unicode Symbols in Twitter

    [...] guys at the Next Web created a simple tool called TwitterKeys, available as  this bookmarklet (which you can drag to your browser bookmark toolbar, and click to [...]

18. Sep 24, 2008: Twitterkeys spice up the online dialogue « Foshowley: Blogger in Training

    [...] a gem ❂. Twitterkeys gives you a slew of icons to spice up your micro posts. The only downside is you have to be logged [...]

19. Oct 3, 2008: TwitterKeys for Email Marketing | MailChimp Blog

    [...] TwitterKeys is a service developed by the folks over at The Next Web Blog that allows you to insert certain Unicode characters in your tweets. Instead of posting that you have a conference call and coffee date before you head to the airport this afternoon, you might tweet something like “☎ then ♨ before ☞ ✈” To address the challenge of trying to remember all these great characters, @bomega and @sandervdv created a bookmarklet that brings up a floating pop-up window with three tabs. Once you drag it to your web browser’s bookmarks toolbar for instant access, you simply double click on the character you want to use.  Just ⌘ c to copy and ⌘ v to paste in to Twitter. [...]

20. Oct 9, 2008: WordPress Websites » 25+ Incredibly Useful Twitter Tools and Firefox Plugins

    [...] 12. TwitterKeys [...]

21. Oct 10, 2008: TwitterKeys - use characters to shorten your text usage « EverythingTwitter

    [...] ran across TwitterKeys and found this to be a useful tool.  You can add a bookmarklet to your toolbar tha tpops up and [...]

22. Oct 11, 2008: Top 10 Twitter tools for a power user « Making better products

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23. Oct 24, 2008: Twitter Tools « (Mark Salinas)MN - Insight and Action

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24. Oct 24, 2008: Blogosphere Highlights 9-25-08 | allJnD

    [...] tools like Ping.fm but they can’t really maintain an active presence on too many websites. TwitterKeys will let you add some UFT8 icons to your Twitter conversations. Editor and Publisher launched two [...]

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26. Nov 1, 2008: Twitter Keys | Virtually Perfect 3.0

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    [...] 3 comments It turns out some guys developed a little tool called TwitterKeys that lets you include all kinds of images in your Tweets. So if you ever wanted to add some [...]

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2. By Tijs Teulings on Sep 16, 2008

   ha! great stuff guys. i’m not sure this will translate to sms but it’s definitely fun.

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   By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on September 16th, 2008:

   Good point. I also hear things about it not working on Twitter Apps that aren’t utf8 compatible such as TweetDeck….

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   By Iain Dodsworth on September 17th, 2008:

   Er yes it is - just change the font used from the default one to the international/utf8 one in the TweetDeck settings window

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   By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on September 17th, 2008:

   Thanks for commenting Iain!

   Why isn’t the international/utf8 setting the standard setting?

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3. By Robin Wauters on Sep 16, 2008

   Good stuff! Twitter should hire you guys or something :)

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4. By Patrick de Laive on Sep 16, 2008

   One word: nice!

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5. By Simon Siahaya on Sep 16, 2008

   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.

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6. By jke on Sep 17, 2008

   Lovely!

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7. By Ern on Sep 17, 2008

   Would be a good idea to actually give us an idea on how to use it within Twitter :-)

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   By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on September 17th, 2008:

   Did you see the pop-up? Read the description? I can’t make it any easier than this…

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   By Brendan on September 17th, 2008:

   Reading? Surely no one does that.

   Seriously, though, good idea.

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   By Ernie on September 17th, 2008:

   Guys it was a simple request LOL

   I added a link in my blog, see I love your product.

   http://ernmander.wordpress.com

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   By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on September 17th, 2008:

   Glad you ♥ it! ☺

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8. By Alex on Sep 17, 2008

   Works on TwitterFox!

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9. By Jason Tucker on Sep 17, 2008

   I’d love to see this as some sort of floating DIV using greasemonkey on firefox.

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   By James on September 19th, 2008:

   Here you go - http://digg.com/programming/Co.....key_script

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10. By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Sep 17, 2008

    Don’t forget to Digg while you are here!
    http://digg.com/tech_news/Use_.....our_Tweets

    And/Or comment/vote here:
    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=306300 and

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11. By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Sep 17, 2008

    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

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12. By Mohammad Badi on Sep 17, 2008

    Wooooow … great symbols
    thanks a lot

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13. By Lisa Clarke on Sep 17, 2008

    Oh, this is just too cute ☺ Thanks! ✿

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14. By SIGEPJEDI on Sep 17, 2008

    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

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15. By Mari Smith on Sep 17, 2008

    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

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16. By Fubiz on Sep 17, 2008

    Excellent idea!

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17. By cyndy ah on Sep 17, 2008

    wish there were more and better icons… kinda weird choices here, but like the idea for the mst part

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18. By nikisees on Sep 17, 2008

    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!

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19. By Dhruva on Sep 17, 2008

    Great work guys

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20. By Laura Christianson on Sep 17, 2008

    This is fun! Another great way to waste time with Twitter. Just tried it; works great. ✌

    Laura Christianson
    co-founder, HeBlogsSheBlogs.com

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21. By http://standinglooking.blogspot.com/ on Sep 17, 2008

    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☕

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    By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on September 17th, 2008:

    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…

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22. By Joop on Sep 17, 2008

    I noticed a lot of ☺ icons today, and wondered where the fuzz was about… great work guys!

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23. By Xavier on Sep 17, 2008

    Works all right with Yoono !

    Although these characters do not stand well to be displayed in small font ☹

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    By Alisha on September 19th, 2008:

    I agree. It’s very hard to even tell what they are when they are so small.

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24. By Steven Verbruggen on Sep 17, 2008

    Hoping for a twhirl integration ;)

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25. By Jerry Brace on Sep 17, 2008

    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.

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    By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on September 17th, 2008:

    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…

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26. By Stuart | Design Meme on Sep 17, 2008

    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).

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    By Stuart | Design Meme on September 17th, 2008:

    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.

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27. By Geoffrey McCaleb on Sep 17, 2008

    Ack!
    Getting the dreaded box of death on my iphone Safari and RSS reader.

    Great concept though….

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28. By Friedbeef on Sep 17, 2008

    …but this will appear how for the people following you on mobile?

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29. By tallyboy on Sep 17, 2008

    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

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30. By Mark on Sep 17, 2008

    80% of the characters are garbage on FF 3.0.1.

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    By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on September 18th, 2008:

    I have FF 3.0.1. and 100% of the characters look good here.

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31. By Emily la Grange on Sep 18, 2008

    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…

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    By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on September 18th, 2008:

    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…

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    By emily la Grange on September 19th, 2008:

    That’s really great!!
    Thanks a million!

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32. By nothingmuch on Sep 18, 2008

    I’d love to have some hot springs when you’re back from the soviet union!

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    By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on September 18th, 2008:

    You mean “I’d ♥ to have some ♨ when you’re ☜ from the ☭!” right?

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    By nothingmuch on September 18th, 2008:

    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 ☭!” ;-)

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33. By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Sep 18, 2008

    Here is my story about what happened in the first 48 hours AFTER I posted this story:

    http://thenextweb.org/2008/09/.....-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…

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34. By ASh on Sep 18, 2008

    Awesome contribution, excellent

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35. By Kim Dearing on Sep 18, 2008

    Thanks so much… Love them!

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36. By Charlotte on Sep 18, 2008

    This site twitter and these little icons make my business rock!!!

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37. By Martha on Sep 18, 2008

    Hi folks - I love these, but they are so very, very tiny! Any way to make them a bit larger?

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38. By Ian Hickson on Sep 19, 2008

    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…

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39. By Matthias on Sep 19, 2008

    Silly. Completely silly. Not to mention pointless.
    I love it.

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40. By Ru Viljoen on Sep 19, 2008

    Well 90% do not display for me. Missing font?

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41. By Ru Viljoen on Sep 19, 2008

    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/.....n=2&q=

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42. By edison on Sep 20, 2008

    美着嘞

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43. By MM on Sep 21, 2008

    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.

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44. By Remy Sharp on Sep 22, 2008

    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/2008/09/2.....tter-keys/

    Cheers!

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45. By design on Sep 23, 2008

    Including bookmarklet!

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46. By Joseph Hoetzl on Sep 24, 2008

    Doesn’t work in twitterberry…well, some do, but not all.

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47. By marzelous on Sep 25, 2008

    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. ☺

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48. By Linke Harry on Sep 29, 2008

    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!
    -
    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

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    By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on September 29th, 2008:

    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.

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49. By Pam Thompson on Oct 2, 2008

    I can’t get all the characters to load - I end up with just a few options. Any suggestions?

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50. By Dave on Oct 5, 2008

    Hey -

    Cavemen used symbols to communicate. What are we going backwards in life? Use words to get your message across.

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51. By eDDy on Oct 8, 2008

    HANDY !
    Nice work, thanks to you !

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52. By food on Oct 9, 2008

    It would be nice if it did not pop up a separate window and just did an overlay like the bit.ly bookmarklet.

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53. By Charles Vicle on Oct 11, 2008

    Congratulations on finding out about Unicode! Have you heard about IPv6 yet?

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    By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on October 12th, 2008:

    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.

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54. By Pete on Oct 12, 2008

    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 ☬

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    By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on October 12th, 2008:

    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…

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    By Pete on October 12th, 2008:

    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.

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    By Pete on October 12th, 2008:

    If you look above nothing much is using them in a sentence.

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    By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on October 12th, 2008:

    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.....2bbtqe.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.

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55. By Pete on Oct 12, 2008

    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.

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    By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on October 12th, 2008:

    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…

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56. By Pete on Oct 12, 2008

    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!

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    By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on October 13th, 2008:

    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…

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57. By Ben on Oct 14, 2008

    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.....d-394.html

    Note: it’s not cross browser but works with Firefox and Chrome that’s for sure.

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    By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on October 14th, 2008:

    Great tutorial! Thanks for the link…

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58. By greg on Oct 20, 2008

    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/image.....g-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!

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59. By Pete on Oct 21, 2008

    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…

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60. By greg on Oct 21, 2008

    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.

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61. By HvosT on Oct 23, 2008

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

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62. By LaSara on Oct 27, 2008

    I love your TwitterKeys! Do you know how to subscript or superscript for twitter? You guys are rad.

    -LaSara
    http://www.lasarafirefox.com

    P.S. Check out my twitter article, Be A Model Twitizen: A Twitter How-To; http://tinyurl.com/4jokke

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63. By jamee on Nov 12, 2008

    I think so many of us use Twhirl..It didn’t work with Twhirl when I tried it..the flowers came up as boxes. Hoping you guys can integrate this somehow.

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64. By DeAnna Troupe on Nov 26, 2008

    So do you just copy the symbols and paste them into twitter?

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65. By Judy on Dec 3, 2008

    What the heck do all those numbers in boxes mean? 26-20, 27-0C?

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66. By Brian on Dec 5, 2008

    Twitter Keys is a great idea and the browser bar makes it very easy to use. I added it to my top twitter tools list here http://www.longest.com/2008/10.....ter-tools/

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