So I noticed a lot of people using characters and symbols in Twitter. I asked an old expert how to do these special characters in Twitter, and he tweeted me the answer – just the same as you put characters and symbols in MSN and Facebook chat (and on Myspace, AIM etc). Status updates and microblogs are the new internet, and so using these old fashioned symbols is a great way to show how cool you are! You can also use them as Twitter emoticons and smileys (they have a smiley face down in the list!).

You can do a lot, like peace ssymbols, hearts, weather symbols, horoscope signs, smileys, emoticons, chess symbols and other things on Twitter.

Characters and symbols in Twitter

© – copyright
® – registered trademark
™ – trademark
☀ – sunshine – sun
☁ – cloudy – cloud – dark cloud
☂ – raining – rain – umbrella
℃ – Celsius
№ – numero symbol – number sign
★ – black star
☆ – white star
☎ – phone
☮ – peace sign
☯ – yin & yang
☺ – smiley face
☻ – black smiley face
☠ – skull & crossbones
☢ – radioactive sign
☚ – left-pointing index finger
☞ – right pointing index finger
♥ – black heart
♫ – musical single bar note
✏ – pencil
✞ – Latin Cross 3D shadow
✡ – Star of David
✄ – scissors
✈ – airport jet airplane

For a full list of Twitter symbols and characters, check out Full list of symbols for facebook, myspace, MSN status (heart, music note, sunshine, peace sign)!