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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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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