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Mapped: The London Twitterati's emoji reactions to the general election result were predictably anti-Tory
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 7.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, politics, Twitter
Summary | The Museum of London displayed a Twitter analysis that shows all the emojis that appeared in political tweets the day after the election. It shows that for example the most popular emoji was the "crying with laughter" face.
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President @realdonaldtrump
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 3.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, hashtags, politics, smartphone, Twitter
Summary | During his first 100 days, Trump tweeted a lot. His most used word in Twitter was "Great" (then: very, today, fake, news). His most common hashtag was "MAGA", the topic he most tweeted about was the media, and his favorite interjection is "Enojy!". Trump does not use a lot of emojis in his tweets, but his most common emoji is the American flag. Also, his most common hour for tweeting is 8am, and he mostly uses his iPhone.
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Twitter left off Trump table in spat over Hillary emoji
Newspaper | Metro
Date | 16.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, politics, Twitter
Summary | Because Twitter refused to create a crooked Hillary emoji, the company was left out of a meeting with Donald Trump.
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The 'tears of joy' emoji is the worst of all - it's used to gloat about human suffering
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 24.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, politics
Summary | The 'tears of joy' emoji is the worst of all emoji; indeed, there is something essentially cruel about this particular emoji. Many times, people use the tears of joy emoji to gloat about something that should be seen as "horrific".
Image Description | Tears of joy emoji, and montage representing Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson
Theresa May did a Facebook Live Q&A and 10,000 people used the 'angry' emoji
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 15.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, politics
Summary | Theresa May did a Facebook Live Q&A and the most popular reaction people shared was the angry emoji.
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Donald Trump may have won the presidential election but at least you can now get a facepalm emoji on your iPhone
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 9.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, politics
Summary | Trump just won the presidential election, and many people don't know what to say. A picture can paint a thousand words: people can at least use the facepalm emoji to express their feelings.
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Twitter 'not invited to Trump's tech industry meeting because they refused to make CrookedHillary emoji during campaign'
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 14.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, politics, Twitter
Summary | Twitter was left out of a meeting held by Trump because the company had refused to create a "crooked Hillary emoji". Trump's election campaign wanted to pay to see the crooked Hillary emoji.
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The Raised Fist Emoji Is Social Media’s Resistance Symbol
Newspaper | Huffington Post
Date | 7.2.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, politics, research/study, social media, Twitter
Summary | Some researchers have analyzed which emojis are most often used in the recent protest hashtags on Twitter. The raised fist emoji comes up in all of them, particulartly when the tweet contains a word like "together" or a similar word marking community. Other popular emojis are the heart emoji, the American flag emoji, and the crying/laughing emoji. Depending on the tone of the hashtag, different emojis are more popular than others.
Image Description | The raised fist emoji and graphs and tables about the distribution of the different emojis in the protest hashtags.
Image Tags | chart, emojis, hashtag
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