Twitter’s custom emoji set is just over a decade old, but it’s seen a lifetime’s worth of updates, upgrades, and major milestones, even before recent paradigm-rattling developments for the former “Bird App” led to two parallel versions of the set.

X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm. This diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from firearm to water pistol from 2016 to 2018.

Today Twitter has begun rolling out support for the 2022 emoji list within its classic Twemoji emoji style. The update's 31 new additions include the shaking face, the donkey, and the plain pink heart.

Emojipedia now includes the full set of highly-detailed glossy emoji sticker designs that debuted within various Twitter features throughout this year.

Twitter has begun to roll out Twemoji 14.0, which provides support for new smileys emojis like the 🫠 Melting Face and 🫡 Saluting Face, as well as support for a variety of mixed skin tone 🤝 Handshake emojis.

Twitter has rolled out a small new emoji update: Twemoji 13.1.1. Several existing emoji designs have been updated, including 🤝 Handshake and 🔋 Battery emojis, both of which will have complimentary new emojis arriving in Emoji 14.0.

Twitter has begun to rollout its latest emoji update, Twemoji 13.1. The update includes new emojis such as the heart on fire [https://emojipedia.org/heart-on-fire/], the face in clouds [https://emojipedia.org/face-in-clouds/], and large-scale skin tone support for couples [https://emojipedia.org/couple-with-heart/] and people kissing [https:

Twitter has begun rollout of its latest emoji update which includes an updated version of the syringe emoji. The new syringe design comes as part of Twemoji 13.0.2 [http://emojipedia.org/twitter/twemoji-13.0.2/] and aligns with changes announced by Apple and Google [https://blog.emojipedia.org/

Twitter has begun rollout of its latest emoji update. Versioned as Twemoji 13.0, this update includes all of the new 2020 emojis such as Smiling Face with Tear [https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-tear/], People Hugging [https://emojipedia.org/people-hugging/], Bubble Tea [https://emojipedia.org/bubble-tea/] and the Pinched Fingers [https:

Yesterday Twitter begun rollout of a new emoji update: Twemoji 12.1.16. While it doesn't include any new emojis, the update does include subtle changes to 36 previously released emoji designs. Above: a selection of the updated emoji designs in Twemoji 12.1.16. As Twemoji 12.

Today Twitter has released Twemoji 12.1.5 [https://emojipedia.org/twitter/twemoji-12.1.5/], bringing a large selection of new gender neutral emojis to the platform. This release comes not long after Twemoji 12.1.4 [https://emojipedia.org/twitter/twemoji-12.1.4/], which updated several existing emojis to

Today Twitter has released Twemoji 12.0 [https://emojipedia.org/twitter/twemoji-12.0/new/], bringing Emoji 12.0 [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-12.0/] support to its various platforms. The update comes hot on the heels of Unicode 12.0 [https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-12-0/], meaning that Twitter are once again

Twitter has today begun to roll out a new update to its native Twemoji emoji set: Twemoji 11.3. The first update to the vendor’s designs in 2019, it features a series of minor adjustments to several previously-released emoji designs. Above: a selection of the revised emoji designs featured

Twitter allows the ✳️ Eight-Spoked Asterisk [https://emojipedia.org/eight-spoked-asterisk/] emoji to be inserted into Twitter names and bios but not 🔷 Large Blue Diamond [https://emojipedia.org/large-blue-diamond/]. Why? To prevent accounts from attempting to look verified when they are not. The Twitter verified checkmark is a white checkmark/tick inside

New changes on Twitter mean that for the first time each emoji counts as the same number of characters in a tweet. Previously 💁, 💁🏽, and 💁🏽‍♂️ would have used 2, 4, and 9 characters respectively. The limit of 280 characters remains intact for latin characters, and as before, each emoji uses two

Today Unicode officially released version 11.0 of the Unicode Standard [https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-11-0/] and Twitter has added support for all 157 new emojis to the latest version of Twemoji. Twitter is typically one of the first companies to support new emoji releases[1] and Twemoji 11.0

Users of Twitter for Android may notice an emoji change when accessing the service today. Twemoji [https://emojipedia.org/twitter/] designs are now shown within Twitter, replacing native emojis previously shown from platform vendors such as Google [https://emojipedia.org/google/] and Samsung [https://emojipedia.org/samsung/]. This update appears

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 2.7 - the vendor's third minor update this year. This particular update is sure to

Roughly two months since making a series of small design changes via its Twemoji 2.5 update [https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-2-5-emoji-changelog/], Twitter has today begun the rollout of Twemoji 2.6. Akin to the latest release, this update features no new emojis: Twitter has been fully up-to-date with Emoji

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 release brings a number of emojis closer to the designs used on other platforms. A number of

Twitter today rolled out emoji support for gendered emojis [https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-10-gendered-emoji-list/] seen most recently in iOS 10 [http://emojipedia.org/apple/ios-10.0/], as well as emoji 32 new professions in female and male variants. These include scientist [http://emojipedia.org/female-scientist/], farmer [http://emojipedia.org/male-farmer/

Today Twitter rolled out support for the rainbow flag [http://emojipedia.org/rainbow-flag/] and pirate flag [http://emojipedia.org/pirate-flag/] emojis. The rainbow flag emoji was documented by Unicode last month [https://blog.emojipedia.org/rainbow-flag-emoji-details-published/], stating that vendors are able to introduce this right away[1], as it is

Twitter today rolled out an update to the emojis available on the website, which includes 72 new additions from Unicode 9.0 [http://emojipedia.org/unicode-9.0/]. Rolling out just in time for World Emoji Day [http://worldemojiday.com], this update makes Twitter the first major platform to include new

Twitter on Wednesday rolled out an update to the custom emoji images it calls Twemoji [http://emojipedia.org/twitter/]. In total 787 new emoji characters are supported, and one of the more obvious changes is this: Above: Emoji modifiers are supported in Twemoji 2.0. Unicode 7 [http://emojipedia.org/