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		sh1mmer on Jan 15, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New Twitter Code For Retweet: ♺ "RT" as it's pretty easy to type That's pretty much it. Anything that I can't type on a Mac using alt and possibly shift is pretty out there. Not only that but who the heck has access to that unicode symbol on a cell phone?

sdfx on Jan 15, 2009 [–]

Not just that, a lot of computer can't even display it correctly. Maybe twitter could auto-replace it with a small image of the sign, but that might break some twitter applications.

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