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Twitter announced today on its developer forum that all emojis will count evenly toward the platform’s maximum 280 character limit. Before this update, various modifiers such as gender and skin tone caused certain emojis to use up more characters than other emojis. Practically, this means that now every emoji counts as the same amount of […]
If you can’t post comments without tossing in at least one emoji to make your feelings clear, you’ll be glad to know that Instagram has your back. After months of testing, Instagram has introduced an emoji shortcut bar on Android and iOS that offers quick access to your most-used icons when wading into a post’s […]
Emoji’s consortium of gatekeepers serve as one example of how online communication might be supervised with rigor, generosity, and imagination. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b2c0cd366dc162128d4666a/master/pass/emoji-essay.jpg
Since 1981, the Golden Raspberry Awards, better known as the Razzies, have been leading the way in nominating movies they consider to be the worst of the worst Hollywood has to offer. After all this time, the joke has kind of run its course, especially when the Razzies simply pick easy targets and don’t really […]
Great idea! But it’s a lot harder than it looks. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a94da999308984e64053147/master/pass/interracialemoji.jpg
When you send an emoji to a friend, you want it to convey the same information. For example, if you sent a “rolling eyes” emoji to a buddy using a Samsung phone, they might not pick up what you’re laying down. That’s because 2017’s “rolling eyes” emoji looks more like a happy face with eyebrows […]
Every year, the governing body Unicode adds new emoji to the nearly 3,000 already in existence. Here’s how it picks the additions. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a7e4bc1ba6c4c501b725467/master/pass/new_emojis2-01.png
Emojipedia The Unicode Emoji 11.0 set is final, adding 157 new emoji to the 2666 we previously had. While we have not yet seen how these will be drawn by Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and other vendors, Emojipedia has whipped up a set of sample emoji to present an idea of what they might look like. There are […]
You may already know that the next iPhone will use face detection for all kinds of clever tricks, but here’s one you probably weren’t expecting: customized emoji. The 9to5Mac crew has discovered that leaked “gold master” iOS 11 firmware includes references to ‘Animoji,’ or 3D emoji that you create using your facial expressions and voice. […]
Android Oreo brings a whole new set of emoji, which look more like squishy circles than the old gumdrop. https://media.wired.com/photos/59a5a64c7849721a8d0c3920/master/pass/Android-Emoji-HP.jpg Feed: All Latest
