Monday, November 9, 2009

Tweeting shorthands

As Twitter keeps message posting limited to 140-character long, sometimes it would be better using certain symbols in character set instead of multiple/repeated characters to save message length.

Try this

To/For

… — ‼
Instead of repeating those characters.
« »
Double less/greater signs, or denote arrows: <- ->

"RT @... original message. ‖ your additional comment"  (idea from '// comment' in C++)
≠ ≤ ≥ ±
<>, <=, >=, +/-
⅛ ¼ ⅜ ½ ⅝ ¾ ⅞
Instead of x/y
© ® ™
Instead of (C), (R), TM
α β
Instead of 'alpha', 'beta'

Also these symbols are nice for use:
  • ≈ ≡ × ÷
  • ∞ ∫ ∑ √ ∂ ∆
  • ¬(not) °(degree) ²(square) ³(cube)

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