Want to spice up your boring tweets on Twitter?? Stick a Japanese emoticon on the end! There are hundreds of these creative little character doodles and they are a lot of fun.
Here are a few to get you started:
(^_^)/ Hi!
(^0^)/ Hi there!
( ^^) smile
(^O^) glad!
(~o~) yawn
(^-^;) cold sweat
(-_^) wink
(`O`) sing a song
(@_@) What???
(~^~) I’m proud
m(__)m
(^_^)/~~ bye~~
(=^_^=) a cat
(o|o) Ultra-man
They’ll only take you so far. For more info about emoticons check out Paperdiaries.com, the site of a certain Ms. Aya, where I found the ones listed above:
http://paperdiaries.com/2008/09/guide-to-japanese-text-emoticons-and-chibi-facial-expressions/
Ms Aya’s blog is an enjoyable read in its own right (or “write”), and Ms Aya ain’t necessarily what you might suppose… but she is a cool Asian lady!
I found Ms Aya’s blog on Google when looking for a specific Japanese text icon to tag onto the end of a Valentine’s Day Tweet – see, http://twitter.com/hirohurl .
Twitter is a great little tool and every day more and more resources are appearing on the web.
Want to see how your Twitter following compares to your friends’ and rivals’ – see http://twittercounter.com/
If your graph is looking a bit “limp” 
you might be interested in this new free resource which will get you a whole bunch of new followers WITHOUT having to follow them first – http://tweetergetter.com/hirohurl .
You don’t even have to give up your email address, and it takes less than 30 seconds to sign up and go!
David Hurley
Internet Marketing Success Strategies
