Adding Symbols to Twitter From Your iPhone

Hidden amid the iPhone's keyboard selection, which encompasses over 20 languages, is the Emoji keyboard. You can use this keyboard to add symbols, in the form of cartoonish pictures, to any text field, such as a Twitter post. There is only one drawback to using the iPhone's Emoji symbols on Twitter: Only other iPhone users can see the symbols when viewing the tweet on their iPhones. For everyone else, such as PC users, the symbols will appear as empty square boxes. Before you can use the Emoji keyboard with Twitter you must first activate the keyboard on your iPhone.

Instructions

Activate Emoji Keyboard on iPhone

1. Touch the "Settings" icon and tap "General."

2. Touch "Keyboard," followed by "Keyboards."

3. Touch "Add New Keyboard" and tap "Emoji" from the list. The iPhone automatically returns to the Keyboards menu and the Emoji keyboard will be in the list of active keyboards at the top of the screen.

Posting Symbols on Twitter

1. Create a new tweet as you normally would using either the Twitter application or Twitter's mobile website via Safari.

2. Touch and hold the "Globe" icon by the "Space" bar. Select "Emoji" from the menu.

3. Tap any symbol to add it to your tweet.

4. Touch and hold the "Globe" icon and select "English" to return to your original keyboard.

Tips & Warnings

• You can remove the Emoji keyboard from the Keyboard section of your iPhone's Settings app.

• These steps apply to both the mobile version of Twitter and the downloadable Twitter application.

• Steps and information in this article apply to iOS 6.0 and higher.

References

• iOS: Understanding Emoji

Resources

• iTunes: Twitter
• Apple: iOS -- Troubleshooting Emoji Issues