Keith Broni

Emoji use continues to rise with over one in five tweets now containing at least one emoji. While more emojis are being used now than ever, the rate of growth has slowed in 2020. In the middle of a year where the 🦠 Microbe emoji [https://emojipedia.org/microbe/] saw a

Following the death of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests against racism and police brutality, Emojipedia experienced a signification increase in lookups of the ✊🏿 Raised Fist with Dark Skin Tone emoji [https://emojipedia.org/raised-fist-dark-skin-tone/]. > Trending: ✊🏿 Raised Fist with Dark Skin Tone https://t.co/RYrQjh8jlz #BlackLivesMatter

A sentiment analysis performed by Emojipedia finds that positive emoji use is on the decrease, while the total number of emojis sent in our communications continues to rise. Analyzing 68 million unique tweets, a number of patterns have emerged which go some way toward reflecting the global mood and how

The number one news story around the world right now is the spread of the latest strain of coronavirus, COVID-19 [https://emojipedia.org/coronavirus/]. While we don't have much to say about the spread of the virus itself – let's leave that to the experts – it is

This week Google released an update to its emoji keyboard allowing emoji mashups within Gboard for the first time. The new functionality allows users to mix and match certain emoji expressions, with the results suggested in the keyboard for input as a sticker. Named Emoji Kitchen [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-kitchen/

Instagram has begun testing a change to how emojis appear on Android phone, with some users now seeing Facebook emoji designs [http://emojipedia.org/facebook/] (instead of system-wide emojis provided by Google or Samsung in comments) DMs and stories. Editor's Note: Despite testing this change at the start

As 2019 comes to a close, we here at Emojipedia have been reflecting on all the emoji updates that took place throughout the year. We’ve seen long-request designs such as white heart [https://emojipedia.org/white-heart/] and flamingo [https://emojipedia.org/flamingo/] be introduced to all major vendors. Gender