If Twitter broke your heart by replacing its ubiquitous "favorite" button with a heart-shaped "like" button, more emotive buttons may be coming to your rescue.
"The heart, in contrast, is a universal symbol that resonates across languages, cultures, and time zones," Akarshan Kumar, a product manager at Twitter said in a statement.
If Twitter now introduces emoji to express a much broader range of emotions at the click of a button, it will be catching up on the growing popularity of emoji and GIFs to quickly communicate a reaction or an emotion on social networks and messaging services around the world.
Facebook recently began testing "Reactions," giving users a range of emojis to pick from such as "love," "haha," "wow" and "yay."
"The heart, in contrast, is a universal symbol that resonates across languages, cultures, and time zones," Akarshan Kumar, a product manager at Twitter said in a statement.
If Twitter now introduces emoji to express a much broader range of emotions at the click of a button, it will be catching up on the growing popularity of emoji and GIFs to quickly communicate a reaction or an emotion on social networks and messaging services around the world.
Facebook recently began testing "Reactions," giving users a range of emojis to pick from such as "love," "haha," "wow" and "yay."
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