This day next week, Emojipedia will be celebrating two significant milestones: not only will we be hosting our 10th annual World Emoji Day, but July 17 2023 also marks ten years since Emojipedia's founding.

Last year, ahead of World Emoji Day 2021, we revealed that emoji use on Twitter had reached a ten-year high. Today, with one week to go before our World Emoji Day 2022 celebrations, Emojipedia can reveal that emoji use on the microblogging platform has experienced another record-breaking increase.

The melee for emoji glory continues on Twitter, as the historically dominant 😂 Face with Tears of Joy and the 😭 Loudly Crying Face have once again swapped places.

Less than a year since the 😭 Loudly Crying Face took the top spot on Twitter, the oft-maligned but ever-present 😂 Face with Tears of Joy is once again the platform's number one emoji by the slimmest of margins. 🤏 📈

As another year enters the annals of history, a new record of global emoji use has been reached. Meanwhile, changes amongst the top ten global emojis continue, though as a whole the world's most popular emojis remain highly stable.

As we once again approach the spooky side of October, certain emojis are getting the time to ✨shine✨. Or ✨gLoW eeRIly✨, as the case may be. Halloween emojis consistently trend on social platforms like Twitter in October, especially for classics like 🎃 Jack-O-Lantern and 👻 Ghost. There's a

Global emoji use has reached an all-time high, with more than one in five tweets now containing an emoji. This has increased from an emoji in every six tweets in 2019, and one-in-ten tweets in 2014. This latest increase in emoji use comes in the same month

To be clear, despite the date of publishing, this is not an April Fool's joke. There's a new top emoji in town. After years of dominance the laughing crying emoji has been dethroned as Twitter's top emoji. In its place today is another teary-

It’s been one year since the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Strict preventative measures were introduced in many nations across the world, and usage of previously-uncommon emojis jumped exponentially as people took to Twitter to grapple with what was going on. What we see

Questions about heart emojis are very common, and this makes a lot of sense. No-one wants to be accused of giving the wrong impression, nor step over some kind of line of emoji familiarity. Does the blue heart mean platonic love and the green heart represents jealousy? Is there

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 saw a giant increase, a certain

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. Trending: ✊🏿 Raised Fist with Dark Skin Tone https://t.co/RYrQjh8jlz #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/tOEVGYtftF — Emojipedia

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

In just two short years one emoji has captured our imaginations like no other. Of every 100 tweets sent in April 2020, one of them contained a relative-newcomer on the emoji scene: 🥺 Pleading Face. A recent Emojipedia analysis of 68 million tweets saw no Covid slowdown on the ever-

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

Over the past year, we've applied emoji data science to studying topics ranging from Brexit to the death of Fidel Castro to the true meaning of the peach emoji. (Hint: 🍑 almost never refers to the fruit.) Naturally, for World Emoji Day, we wanted to go meta and look

Apple recently came under fire for proposing a change to the 🍑 peach emoji that made it look more fruit-like and less butt-like. “What’s happening to emojis represents the worst kind of gentrification of the internet,” charged Buzzfeed. Mashable was even more dramatic, exclaiming: “Apple just ruined texting.

The past week has seen a whirlwind of social media activity around the death of Fidel Castro, Thanksgiving, and Black Friday. We were curious about how people used emojis to discuss these topics so we looked at some data from Twitter. As DJ Khaled is fond of saying, “it’s