Users of Twitter for Android may notice an emoji change when accessing the service today. Twemoji designs are now shown within Twitter, replacing native emojis previously shown from platform vendors such as Google

2018 has been an active year for Twemoji. While we have yet to see any of the new Emoji 11.0 additions just yet, today Twitter has begun to roll out Twemoji 2.

Tony Hawk, professional skateboarder and beloved video game character, is a bit easier to spot in the real world now thanks to a new set of plates on his car. Originally posted on

As work on the the emoji list for 2019 continues, a white heart, flamingo, and maté have been added to the draft candidates list. White heart has been one of the most popular

Google's developer conference opened this year with CEO Sundar Pichai addressing the burger emoji “controversy” of 2017. Google previously displayed the 🍔 Burger emoji with cheese underneath the burger patty. Addressing the matter in

By many measures, 😂 Face With Tears of Joy has led the pack as the most used emoji in recent years. Dogging its heels, though, is another smiley: 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes. In 2017,

Microsoft's Windows 10 “April 2018 Update” (most commonly referred to as Spring Creators Update until now) has been released today with 104 emoji changes. Whilst there are no new additions to the set,

It's a flush. Every major vendor has now committed to redesign the gun emoji, replacing it with a water pistol / squirt gun design. It took a while, and then it happened all at

An update rolling out now to Android users has updated the gun emoji to appear as a toy water pistol, in line with recent changes by other vendors. It seems inevitable in retrospect.

Samsung has begun rolling out another set of updates to its emoji set. These changes contain design revisions which give further credence to 2018 being a year of increased emoji convergence. Samsung’s

Roughly two months since making a series of small design changes via its Twemoji 2.5 update, Twitter has today begun the rollout of Twemoji 2.6. Akin to the latest release, this

The emoji keyboard is mostly universal, but some vendors have final say over which characters appear in which regions on each device. iPhone users in China are missing one specific emoji on their

One of the great virtues of emojis are their ability to mark tone where plain text cannot. A simple ❤️ Red Heart can add affection to a text message. A string of 😂 😂 😂 Face With

One major dictionary company has begun documenting emojis. Is this a sign of things to come? Dictionary.com has expanded from covering just words, to also including emojis (and memes). Lexicographer Jane Solomon

With the release of iOS 11.3 today, Apple is making some minor adjustments to four emojis: 🦁 Lion Face, 💀 Skull, 🐻 Bear Face and 🐲 Dragon Face.

In a submission to the Unicode Consortium today, Apple has proposed a suite of new “accessibility emojis”. New emojis proposed include a guide dog, hearing aid, prosthetic limbs, as well as people using

😂 Face With Tears of Joy was used 6.6 billion times on Twitter in 2015, and has remained the most used emoji on just about every platform ever since. Apple listed Tears of

Android users, if you still see empty boxes on your screen, that’s because the app you’re in probably isn’t using EmojiCompat. When Google launched Android 8.0 in August of

With 157 new emojis arriving this year we now look ahead to 2019. Which emojis have been most requested in the past 12 months? One of the most requested this year is the

You might have scrolled past this emoji—😪—and puzzled about what it means, exactly. Tucked in a column with 🤤 Drooling Face and 😵 Dizzy Face , it's a smiley with closed eyes and a slack

Twitter has today released an update to their Twemoji emoji set. This update adds no new emojis, but does change the appearance of a number of designs. Versioned as Twemoji 2.5, this

We heard you. We made some mistakes. And we are fixing them. The news of 157 new emojis in 2018 came earlier this month and if it proved one thing: people are passionate

157 new emojis are coming in 2018, but two of these are already Unicode characters. What does it mean to be turned into an emoji? Included in the new 2018 emoji list is

It's Valentine's Day, which means we always see a number of heart emojis trending on Emojipedia. So how many emojis are there that include hearts? 29.[1] 😍 Smiling Face With Heart-Eyes 😘 Face Blowing

For years, different emoji sets have been causing problems in communicating a simple emotion. Send a grimace on iOS? Get a grin everywhere else. Send a grin from a Galaxy? Get an eye-roll