Apple to release new emojis with iOS 14.2

While the current version of iOS is iOS 14.0.1, Apple is already testing iOS 14.2. The company released an early beta version of the update yesterday, and it includes a new set of emojis, as Emojipedia spotted. Apple already shared an early look of the new emojis back in July. Overall, there will be dozens […]

Not Into The Hearts? Twitter Appears To Be Testing Multi-Emoji Reactions

hearts-for-stars1 Yes, the fav turned into a like. The star turned into a heart. Some tweeters were not very happy about this change even though Twitter said engagement was just fine — increased among new users, in fact. Today, we’ve learned that Twitter, which tests many things all of the time, is letting folks play with the ability to share reactions in multiple ways by way of emojis. Forget… Read More

Twitter’s Custom Emojis Make Their #Brands Debut With #ShareACoke

A few months ago, I wondered out loud if Twitter was missing the boat by not charging for its custom emojis. I mean, brands want to spend money on ads, I bet they’re salivating over having their own custom emoji. Wonder no more. Coke has gotten its own custom emoji (previously called hashflags), the company shared with me.
Until now, Twitter has only introduced these custom emojis for… Read More

Twitter’s Custom Emojis Make Their #Brands Debut With #ShareACoke

A few months ago, I wondered out loud if Twitter was missing the boat by not charging for its custom emojis. I mean, brands want to spend money on ads, I bet they’re salivating over having their own custom emoji. Wonder no more. Coke has gotten its own custom emoji (previously called hashflags), the company shared with me.
Until now, Twitter has only introduced these custom emojis for… Read More

If This Selfie Emoji Becomes Official, I Am Going Back To Using A Flip Phone

Screen Shot 2015-08-20 at 11.30.47 AM One of my favorite things to do is to watch and see what emojis become candidates for Unicode updates (don’t judge). Sometimes they’re really great and sometimes they’re, well, obnoxious. Two years ago, the word “selfie” was added to the dictionary, which made my day really awful until I saw that “twerk” was also added. Then it turned into the worst… Read More

When Normal Emoji Are Not Enough…

Randemojinator The many faces of emoji just gained a few more — thanks to a web tool put together by 17-year-old developer Giacomo Randazzo which randomly remixes standard yellow-faced emoticons to stir up some new expressions. Read More

Twitter’s Mastering The Emoji, But Are They Missing Out On A Gravy Train? 🍗💵💰🍗

16748508705_2afd2bbfd2_k Today’s one of those completely useless internet fake holiday days. It’s World Emoji Day!
Anyways, emojis can be serious business, or in the case of Twitter…should be serious business.
My colleague Jon Russell pointed out that Twitter might be missing the boat on charging for cool emoji packs like messaging service Line and others do.

Twitter is missing a trick not… Read More