{"id":4930,"date":"2016-07-17T21:05:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T13:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/17\/twitter-data-shows-the-world-is-making-boring-emoji-choices\/"},"modified":"2016-07-17T21:05:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T13:05:34","slug":"twitter-data-shows-the-world-is-making-boring-emoji-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/17\/twitter-data-shows-the-world-is-making-boring-emoji-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter data shows the world is making boring emoji choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f147199%2fgettyimages-543305940\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/LShLmMA8ehWlhD6JsqJxKZFv1LM=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F147199%2FGettyImages-543305940.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Twitter+data+shows+the+world+is+making+boring+emoji+choices&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F07%2F17%2Ftop-emoji-day-twitter%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F07%2F17%2Ftop-emoji-day-twitter%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Bad news, world: Your emoji choices are truly bland.<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of World Emoji Day Sunday \u2014 held annually on July 17 because that&#8217;s the date shown on <a href=\"http:\/\/emojipedia.org\/calendar\/\">the emoji calendar<\/a>, geddit? \u2014 Twitter has released the most tweeted emoji globally from mid-2015 to mid-2016. And, well, it&#8217;s a little lacklustre.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/16\/how-to-remove-facebook-gun-sales\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">The Twitter army attacking Facebook gun sales<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Worldwide, the most tweeted emoji is the &#8220;face with tears of joy,&#8221; as dubbed <a href=\"http:\/\/unicode.org\/emoji\/charts\/full-emoji-list.html\">by Unicode<\/a>. It&#8217;s followed by the smiling face with heart eyes and a weeping emoji. Where is the judgmental &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/emojipedia.org\/thinking-face\/\">thinking face<\/a>?&#8221; Where is the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/emojipedia.org\/raised-hand-with-part-between-middle-and-ring-fingers\/\">vulcan salute<\/a>&#8220;? Where is any emoji with some personality? <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/17\/top-emoji-day-twitter\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/world-emoji-day\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">World Emoji Day<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/emoji\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Emoji<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/twitter\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/australia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Australia<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/social-media\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Social Media<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1468753546' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1468753546'><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/E4kR1Geqb34\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news, world: Your emoji choices are truly bland. In celebration of World Emoji Day Sunday \u2014 held annually on July 17 because that&#8217;s the date shown on the emoji calendar, geddit? \u2014 Twitter has released the most tweeted emoji &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/17\/twitter-data-shows-the-world-is-making-boring-emoji-choices\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[728,1003,783,16,3806],"class_list":["post-4930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-australia","tag-emoji","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-world-emoji-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}