Jeremy Burge

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

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

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.

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 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

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

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

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

We could begin seeing fewer emojis in the world as Apple has begun cracking down on how its iconic emoji designs are used. Over the past few years, Apple has come to embrace

Slack users have long requested an update to Slack's emoji support. Now it's here, but there is a catch for some users. Reports of a gradual rollout of these new features have flooded

Apple first added emoji support on the iPhone in 2008. Nearly a decade later these designs seem familiar as ever. At the time of Apple's first emoji release, iOS was known as iPhone

HTC once had a custom emoji font that was up-to-date and gave HTC devices a distinct style. It appears those days are over. Back in 2015 HTC devices shipped with custom emoji designs

An analysis of 6 billion emojis used over the past two years shows women continue to use more emojis than men, negative emoji use spikes over night, and Virgin Atlantic sees more positive

Unicode last night announced the beta version of next year's emoji release.[1] This beta release marks one step closer to toward a softball emoji, as well as a cupcake, redheads, bagel or

Apple today released iOS 11.2 which changes the appearance of emojis such as 🥃 Tumbler Glass, 🐜 Ant and ⚙️ Gear. Arriving a month after the major emoji iOS emoji update of 2017, this update

Google has updated its hamburger emoji after CEO Sundar Pichai last month said he would drop everything to address the previous design. The new burger design sees the cheese moved from its previous

Looking for inspiration for emoji Christmas presents, or other holidays gifts? You've come to the right place. Cufflinks, books, phones: we've got quite a range. Originally the idea of an emoji gift guide