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Overview

This guide explains how to use strikethrough in a few different places on Twitter, including: tweets, DMs (straight messages), and in your Twitter profile. Yous can use strikethrough text on Twitter to cantankerous out words -- for example if you lot want to outcome a correction, cantankerous something off of a list, or to be ironic.

Twitter doesn't take a built-in way to put a line through text. In gild to make strikethrough text on Twitter, yous'll need to generate the strikethrough font characters using unicode. This guide volition show you how to generate that text with YayText'south strikethrough text generator.

A word of warning: while most people won't have whatever issues seeing the strikethrough text YayText generates with unicode, sure browsers and platforms might take problems. Users who can't see the crossed out text will see their system'south default replacement character (ordinarily boxes or questions marks) -- either in between the normal font characters, or replacing them completely.

Strikethrough in Tweets

Step i: Write your Tweet

Etch your tweet just like you usually do... merely don't hit post all the same!
Stride 2: Create your strikethrough text

In a new tab, open YayText's strikethrough font generator. Enter the text you desire crossed-out into the "Your Text" box. Then click the "copy" button next to the specific strike style that you'd like to use. Your text will be copied to your computer's clipboard.
Step 3: Replace the text in your Tweet

Go back to your post and paste the strikethrough text that you copied from the previous step. Sometime the unicode characters generated by YayText are counted as more than than 1 character in Twitter'southward character limits. Double cheque that your post is still under Twitter's character limit.
Footstep 4: You're done

You did it, high five! Your tweet now contains words with strikethrough!

Strikethrough in DMs

Stride 1: Write your straight message

Write your DM, but don't hit send yet!
Step 2: Get your strikethrough text

In a new tab, open up up YayText'southward strikethrough text generator. Enter the text that yous want to struck-out into the "Your Text" box. Then click the "copy" push button next to the fashion that you desire to utilize. The strikethrough text you generated has now been copied to your clipboard.
Footstep 3: Supercede the text in your DM

Go back to your Twitter and paste the strikethrough text that you copied from the previous step.
Step 4: You're done

Woohoo! Your Twitter DM now has strikethrough text!

Strikethrough in your contour

Step 1: Edit your profile

Edit your Twitter profile every bit y'all normally would. Don't hit save yet!
Stride 2: Get your italic text

In a new tab, open up YayText's strikethrough text generator. Enter the text you want to put a line through into the "Your Text" box. Then click the "re-create" button next to the specific strikethrough font you want to use. Your text is now copied to your clipboard.
Step iii: Replace the text in your profile

Go back to the profile editing screen. Now you can paste the struck-out text that you copied in footstep 2.
Step 4: You're done

Woohoo! Your Twitter bio at present has strikethrough text!