At 23:00, Jo Combs (twitter.com/underdog100) had just 37 followers
5 minutes later, Graham Norton had featured her tweets on his show, albeit poking fun at them, but, now, her followers had swelled to 110!
Every time I hit F5, her number of followers increases
By 23:10 the count had grown to 130… around a 300% increase in 10 minutes!
I got bored at about 23:20, but by then, the follower count had grown to 140!
Not bad!
Emoticons are ok, when used sparingly, or not talking to your boss.
The last thing you need in the latter situation is for your conversation to be littered with
or 
or even worse 
To disable them, first click the icon circled in red below.
Alternatively, you can press the Alt key.
Either way, you need to select Tools –> Options.
In the resulting dialog, you need to select Messages, then untick Show emoticons.
Abbie: Absolutely brilliant. Thank you....
Fernando: Thanks to publish this, works for me. :)...
Shawn: I did what you said to try but I'm still having the same issue. Do yo...
Stewart: Thanks! This really helped. The developer didn't even know that Chil...
Webdesign Aachen: is it possible to publish posts with excerpts?...