How to Strikethrough Text on TweetDeck

Twitter purchased TweetDeck in May 2011.

Web services like Twitter use what's known as a Unicode font. The Unicode font library was designed so that all of the characters necessary for international communication would be available in the same font library. Because of this, you can't apply typical formatting to the text sent to Twitter through applications like TweetDeck. You can, however, use the Unicode font strikethrough text to create the same effect.

Instructions

1. Click the "Start" button on your computer, then type "Character Map" and press "Enter."

2. Click the check box next to "Advanced View" and then type "0336" in the "Go to Unicode" box. Click the "Select" button and then click the "Copy" button.

3. Open your TweetDeck application. Press "Ctrl V" to paste in the Unicode strikethrough character and then type the first letter of your tweet. Press "Ctrl V" again and type the second letter. Repeat for all of the letters in your tweet.

Tips & Warnings

• The strikethrough character counts against your total character count in addition to the letters you type. For example the phrase: "???T???h???i???s??? a??? ???t???e???s???t???" with the strikethrough takes 44 characters in TweetDeck versus the 11 that it would take to type it without the strikethrough.

• You can also copy the text between the quotation marks here to copy the Unicode strikethrough character: "???"

References

• Alan Wood: Unicode Fonts

Resources

• Special Status: Strikethrough
• Herp Tools: Strikethrough
• Adam Varga: Unicode Strikethrough Generator