Digital Discourse Database

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Mapped: The London Twitterati's emoji reactions to the general election result were predictably anti-Tory

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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

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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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In a Tiny Digital Icon, Big Aspirations

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 27.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, Twitter
Summary | A new emoji representing the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags was added to Twitter; this digital recognition was significant. Emojis are everywhere and everyone uses them; they have become an important part of our communication. The new emoji was added to Twitter on a special day: during Australia's 50th anniversary of the vote to include indigenous people in the national census. The new emoji can thus be shared easily. Although adding the new emoji might seem insignificant, an associate professor of indigenous studies says that adding the flags represents an important move by Twitter.
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Twitter left off Trump table in spat over Hillary emoji

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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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Twitter unveils new 'tent' emoji ahead of launch of new Great British Bake Off series

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 23.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, Twitter
Summary | Twitter users can now use a new emoji representing The Great British Bake Off "tent" where contestants will have to bake and impress judges.
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Twitter 'not invited to Trump's tech industry meeting because they refused to make CrookedHillary emoji during campaign'

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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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Hapless presenter ridiculed for cringeworthy report about 'secret emoji codes' being used by children

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 3.2.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, Twitter
Summary | A news reporter claimed that children were using emojis as a secret code. He was then mocked by Twitter users. The reporter gave a few examples: a frog emoji can mean "you're ugly", or a fox head emoji means "let's sneak out of the house". However, Twitter users said they didn't know there existed a fox emoji.
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Twitter adds support for 69 new emoji - but there's a very annoying catch

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 25.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, Twitter
Summary | Twitter introduced 69 new emojis. However, since the characters are part of the Unicode 10.0 release, those who are using macOS, iOS, Android or Windows won't be able to see the new emojis on their Twitter apps.
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The Raised Fist Emoji Is Social Media’s Resistance Symbol

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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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