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Twitter: All emojis are now equal, character-count wise

sudshr47 October 11, 2018

In an effort to level the playing field, Twitter is changing how emojis are viewed on its platform.

In a post over on the company’s developer forum, Twitter announced that, moving forward, every emoji will be counted as the same number of characters toward your tweet’s 280-character count. All emojis regardless of gender, race, eggplant, or flag will count as a total of two characters.

It may seem like a small change, but due to how Unicode, the organization that ensures emoji encoding is consistent across platforms, rendered certain emojis characteristics like gender and race in an emoji could sometimes eat up multiple characters. And as we know, in a tweet, every character counts. Read more…

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There is no more gun emoji. Is that a good thing?

sudshr47 July 20, 2018

Emoji have conquered the world, no doubt, but what happens after the conquest?

The answer: Things change. Emoji are constantly evolving, not only with new symbols that arrive on our smartphone keyboards year after year, but also the symbols themselves. A couple of years ago, your standard emoji keyboard usually had a gun on it, but today that symbol has been almost universally replaced with a water pistol.

The gun’s transformation may be the most dramatic of changes, but emoji are changing in subtler ways, too. Apple recently announced a new set of emoji coming in iOS 12, and it includes a eye-like symbol, the nazar amulet, that’s very popular in Turkey and other parts of the world, but not the U.S. With the emoji keyboard now pretty much filled out with “universal” symbols, expect more niche or regional characters to appear. Read more…

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Now there’s a space cat emoji, but it’s only available on one OS

sudshr47 July 12, 2018

Choices, choices. What to do when there there are few conceivable reasons to want a device with a Windows 10 operating system — but Windows 10 is the only OS that has introduced possibly the greatest emoji of all … the ASTRO CAT emoji!!

Emojipedia introduced Astro Cat on Thursday. You make it by combining the the 🐱 Cat Face and 🚀 Rocket emojis, joining them using the “zero width joiner.” That’s an invisible character used in emoji sequences to create a new character — such as Astro Cat.

And boy is she beautiful.

If you’re using @Windows 10 you have access to this Astro Cat emoji. Appears on other platforms as a 🐱‍ and 🚀 https://t.co/iRMQ2oCrPd

— Emojipedia 📙 (@Emojipedia) July 12, 2018 Read more…

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‘Tears of Joy’ emoji no longer sufficient to describe the surrealistic hellscape that is now

sudshr47 March 15, 2018

Times right now are … weird, and your emoji use proves it.
Or, rather, we should say your disuse. That’s because everyone’s once-favorite way to pictorially say haha omg that shit is so hilarious I’m crying right now, the so-called “Tears of …

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The lobster emoji was anatomically inaccurate so now it’s getting fixed

sudshr47 February 23, 2018

Lobsters are kind of a big deal to the people of Maine. Which is why they weren’t at all pleased to discover the new lobster emoji was anatomically inaccurate.

Thankfully, Unicode took instant action and rectified its mistake.

In early February, the U.S. state—famed for its lobsters—celebrated its victory in securing a lobster emoji. In September 2017, Sen. Angus King of Maine penned a letter to the Unicode Consortium, urging it to release a lobster emoji.

Great news for Maine – we’re getting a lobster emoji!!! Thanks to @unicode for recognizing the impact of this critical crustacean, in Maine and across the country

Yours truly,

Senator 🐮👑

— Senator Angus King (@SenAngusKing) February 7, 2018 Read more…

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Here are all 150+ new emoji coming in 2018

sudshr47 February 7, 2018

Emoji are about to get a lot more expressive — with more (and less) hair. Yeah, that’s right. There’s curly haired, red haired, and bald emoji now.

Emojipedia, the self-proclaimed emoji search engine that keeps the world up-to-date on all the latest emoji, made a nice 2-minute video showing off the more than 150 emoji that will be added to iPhones everywhere “in the second half of 2018.”

If you’re as obsessed with emoji as we are, buckle up. There are tons of awesome new faces and animals being added to the mix. Of course, we can’t help but be excited about the *PARTYING FACE* emoji. But for those who like sending body parts to your friends, there will soon be a leg, foot, tooth, and bone emoji for you to add to your repertoire. Read more…

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The identity politics of emoji

sudshr47 December 23, 2017

Welcome back to CTRL+T, TechCrunch’s latest weekly podcast in which Megan Rose Dickey and I pick the stories we thought were interesting enough to talk to you about. This week we wondered if cell phones can adversely affect your health (or kill you), the goggles of Magic Leap and the problem Twitter has with the hateful people on its platform. Then later in the ep, Megan chats up… Read More

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You could soon be able to change the direction of your emoji

sudshr47 December 5, 2017

2018 could be the year of changeable emoji directions. This. Is. Huge.
SEE ALSO: All women’s shoe emoji have high heels. This striking campaign wants to change that
Emojipedia reports that a just-published proposed update to Unicode’s emoji doc…