Formatting exists to draw the reader’s attention to certain parts of texts, to highlight key ideas and information. Footnotes exist to allow the reader to check the sources the author has drawn from and verify the author’s claims. The power of social media is far greater than just letting your friends know about that chronic itch that just won’t go away. This tool was built to increase the quality of discourse and information sharing on social media sites, to increase their usefulness for sharing complex ideas and information.

Functions:

• Allows you to use bold, italic, underlined, and superscript textˡᶦᵏᵉ ᵗʰᶦˢ.
• Automatically turns hyperlinks into footnotes, so you can easily include multiple links in a single post and show your sources.

How to Use:

Simply use the editing tools provided, or else copy and paste text in from Word, LibreOffice/OpenOffice, or any other similar word processor. Then, copy and paste the output from the right page into any social media site.

Shortcomings:

1. This tool only supports languages that use the Latin alphabet, although we’ve done our best to accommodate most European character sets.
2. Sometimes underlineswill stretch out a bit to the left of words.
3. Because characters that are both underlined and bold/italic show up as unreadable squares on Android devices, they are displayed only underlined.
4. Superscript q doesn't look right.
5. Special characters such as $ and ! cannot be displayed as bold or italic.

Notice any bugs? Things that can be improved? HTML tags showing up in the output? Are any characters in your language not working? We’d love to hear from you! Please email us at feedback@socialformatting.com.