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by snickerbockers 664 days ago
Nobody will ever use this unless it miraculously becomes a standard symbol on keyboards.
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Or if editors swap ***, :fediverse:, etc. for it automatically. There's no* emoji keyboards, but people use emoji all the time.

* Well, there is, but there isn't a widely available consumer product https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AtBE9BOvvk

I think this proposal is silly but come on, no keyboard has a twitter icon either.
X?
No, blackboard bold X [1]. Unfortunately HN doesn't allow it...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_bold

yeah and that's why you wrote out "twitter" instead of using some creative sequence of unicode characters to describe a blue bird visually in your post implying that people tend to do so.