Cool Characters in Twitter - A GreaseMonkey Script!
Posted on Friday, September 19th, 2008
Recently there’s been some "hype" around the previously unknown fact that Twitter accepts cool UTF-8 characters. To be honest I never really assumed otherwise but the story covering it got over 2000 diggs today so I’m probably in the minority.
The actual story which was dugg was offering a bookmarklet which you can press to bring up a popup window which enabled you to copy (*gasp*) and paste (*gasp*) funny characters into your tweets. The only problem with this being that it is manual and not really worth the effort… not even slightly! I’m quite lazy so cannot be bothered to open a new window… go into that new window… highlight a bit of text… copy it… select the twitter window… and then paste it into the textbox! So, spending that wouldbe wasted time I created a sweet little GreaseMonkey script which does all of it for you!
You can download it from UserScript.org here > UserScripts.org/scripts/show/34024
Screenshot (click for larger):
September 20th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Great script , you wont mind if i feature your script on my blog ?
September 20th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
@Rahulw, Of course you can feature it on ur blog.
September 24th, 2008 at 9:58 am
heh looks really cool!
October 9th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
thanks for the post james.
may i ask you the name of the script you use for screenshot image above?
October 9th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
@Tevfik - It’s called Highslide.
October 10th, 2008 at 6:10 am
thank you james
October 10th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Awesome! Thanks so much!!!
Cheers from bonn, germany, Oliver
October 16th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Really interesting. Now I understand the value of GreaseMonkey