How to italic, bold and underline on Twitter (now X)

To any Twitter user (now with the new name of) you want your messages to reach far and be read by the largest possible audience. There are many tricks and resources to do it, but without a doubt something that will help us a lot is to learn how to italic, bold and underline on Twitter X.

This question goes far beyond the simple aesthetic question. Text writers know well the importance of structuring writing, highlighting certain words and making the message more expressive and well directed. And all of this can be achieved on many occasions with these simple actions.

To make this type of modifications to Twitter texts (now already X) there is no method to resort to from the application itself. The only way to do this is to use external tools. The ones that we mention in this article will serve us interchangeably to write messages in italics, bold and underlined on Twitter, although we analyze them here separately.

Write in cursive on Twitter

In a text, Cursive letter (also called italics or italics) is generally used to give emphasis to a phrase or word. It also serves to indicate a word from another language or that is part of jargon or slang.

To write in cursive on Twitter, one of the most recommended applications is stylish text. With it, we will have access to dozens of fonts, some really original. Many different possibilities to change the style of our biography or that of any message we write.

How does it work? After downloading and installing the app on our mobile device, it is very important to open it and take a few moments to tutorial that it offers to users. Once we have the basic information to use this resource, we just have to follow these steps:

1. We open the Twitter app.
2. We press the option to edit our Twitter profile, or we just write a new tweet.
3. We select the word or words that we want to modify and, in the box that opens, we choose the Stylish Text option.
4. Finally, we choose the italic style (italic) and the selected text will be transformed automatically.

These are the download links for Stylish Text for Android and iOS:

Write in bold on Twitter

In typography, it is known as "bold font" (o bold, in English) to a variant of the character set of a text font that is thicker than the normal form. To understand each other, as if it were written with a thicker marker or marker. serves for highlight important words or passages within a text.

Although it is not the only one, one of the most popular tools for writing Twitter messages in bold is the font generator. Yaytext. The app is only available for download on Android devices. To use it on an iPhone or iPad, it is best to follow this method:

1. To begin with, we wrote a message, but left it unpublished.
2. Next, we open a new tab in the browser and access the Yavtext website, specifically the page bold generation.
3. We write the text we want to make bold in the box marked "Your text" and then click "Copy."
4. Next, we return to Twitter and paste the text into the message, which will be shown written in bold. All that remains is to publish the tweet.

This is the download link of Yaytext for Android:

Underline words on Twitter

Underlining is the most suitable resource to highlight the most important ideas of a text. On the Internet this can sometimes be a bit confusing, since underlined text is often indicative of the existence of a hyperlink. Even so, underlining the text of a tweet can sometimes be a very practical resource.

The tool we have selected to underline texts on Twitter is a very popular and widely used one for this and other tasks: Unicode Text Converter. This is how it is used:

1. First we go to the Unicode Text Converter website.
2. There, in the box shown at the top of the screen, we write the text.
3. Automatically, the text with the available fonts is displayed in the lower box.
4. We click on the font and style we want to apply (in our case, the underline).
5. Finally, we paste the converted text into our Twitter message.

One final word of caution about these Twitter italic, bold, and underline apps and tricks: while they're really helpful, they can sometimes lead to display problems. This is very common, for example, on devices that use certain versions of Android.

The result is even worse in some browsers and operating systems, which do not directly recognize the new italic or bold characters. In these cases, instead of letters, what we observe are illegible symbols. This is something that must be taken into account,