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How to make #TwitterArt

Many people ask how I make #TwitterArt. How they can make it, too. Here is the first thing to know:

Where to find the shapes and symbols:

On Mac it is "Character Palette" (usually pulls down from flag icon upper right) on PC it is "Character Map" (I don't use PC, I don't remember where it is)

That is what this picture is of, the Character Map. I enter objects from it directly into Twitter (or HootSuite) and hit "tweet." The end.

LOL… there is a little trick with the order of objects that I'm skipping over… but it is a long story.

I'll post more about how-to, maybe… it is trade secrets / magic / I've figured it out and so can you. That first step is the most important one:

Find the Character Palette… open it. All the objects your operating system supports are there: ▲◤◒ ╠╬╝ ╭╮ ☝➷ ⤴⤶₦ʘ ∰ … no special application or specialized knowledge needed. ☯♕☺ <- Misc. Symbols ┌┼┼▇▆▅▄ <- geometric shapes. Try it! It is mildly addictive… =^)

I mostly use "Geometric Shapes" "Miscellaneous Symbols" and "Enclosed Letters"…

All these shapes & symbols are contained in the font Arial (Twitter's main font) (many fonts contain the same variations)… Beyond A thru Z, there are dozens of languages, glyphs, symbols, objects, braille… invisible objects, even!

The More You Know: ASCII is a small subset of Unicode & ISO/IEC 10646 which ultimately contains about 100,000 characters! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#Unicode

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note: Different groups of characters have different lengths.

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