PC

• 1). Turn on your Number Lock if you are using a desktop or a computer that has a separate number pad. If you don't have a separate number pad, hold down the "fn" key and press your "Number Lock" button. This will turn on your number pad, which is located within some of your letter keys.
  
  
• 2). Hold down "alt" and type "13" in your number pad to get an eighth note.
  
  
• 3). Hold down "alt" and type "14" in your number pad to get a beamed eight note.
  
  
• 4). Skip to the section titled: "Setting Up Your Tweet."
  
  

Mac

• 1). Go to the top right-hand corner of your menu. Click on the Input menu, which will look like a flag (depending on what country you are in).
  
  
• 2). Click on the symbol and a drop-down menu will appear.
  
  
• 3). Scroll through and click on "Show Character Palette."
  
  
• 4). Scroll through your choices of symbols until you find the music notes.
  
  
• 5). Double-click the character so that it gets inserted into a document or click the character and choose "Insert" to place it into the document.
  
  
• 6). Hold down the Apple key+C to copy the music note from your document.
  
  
• 7). Go to the section titled: "Setting Up Your Tweet."
  
  

Setting Up Your Tweet

• 1). Go to your Twitter home page.
  
  
• 2). Click the text box under "What's Happening?" Use the shortcut alt codes in this box if you have a PC. If you are using a Mac, paste with the Apple key+V.
  
  
• 3). Click "Tweet" to send through your tweet with your music symbols.
  
  

Copying and Pasting

• 1). Go to the Facebook Symbols web site in the Resources section. Even though the web site says it's for Facebook, it will work with Twitter as well.
  
  
• 2). Highlight the music note you want to type into Twitter and highlight it with your mouse.
  
  
• 3). Hold Ctrl+C to copy the image in Windows. Then press Ctrl+V to paste it into your Twitter text box. For a Mac, hold down the Apple key+C and when you want to paste, Hold down the Apple key+V.