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!
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