Don’t be silly and use my shape, go ahead and use the official vectors from Twitter themselves. You can find those right here. Thanks to @gilbert for the advice.

I made wasted my time making a custom shape in Photoshop replicating the “t” icon from Twitter. A custom shape is a vector, which allows you to resize the shape without losing any quality. I thought some people might find it useful so I decided to share it here. It’s not perfect, but it is free!

Figuring out how to actually share the shape was a bit of a hassle, so I thought I’d share how to do that as well. If you make a shape (or shapes) that you want to share, follow these steps:

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In a not so subtle move to increase the amount of market data it has access to, Facebook has introduced the ability to “Like” a comment. I’m curious to see how popular this feature becomes, and how much it adds to the user experience. Facebook is in the business of mining for data, and this is a sensible move. More importantly, I don’t feel that this measure is unfairly taking advantage of users. Though ultimately, I guess that is hard to determine for sure without knowing exactly what information Facebook distributes about its users. With privacy issues revolving around the service making front page headlines, I question the timing of this move.

Next Up: The Like-a-Like Feature; for those times when you like that your friend liked your comment.