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"Lots of people like to add things like ♥✩♬♡►♪☺♫ to their tweets for fun, but did you know adding symbols can make your tweets shorter and easier to read too? Or that there are over 109,000 symbols available? Or that the Wall Street Journal uses symbols to add bar charts to its tweets?"

What's a hashtag? Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your posts. Hashtags can be created by anyone simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #myhashtag.

Pew Internet surveys Twitter and microblog usage.

how to add symbols to your tweet

Twitter is a website that is succeeded in micro-blogging (blogging very short messages). Logging into the Twitter homepage user can type ''tweets'' or short messages up to 140 symbols and send it out by clicking ''update''. Everyone who is online and in your network can instantly see

Allows you to post small icons as part of the tweet.