The increasingly use of picture characters. known as emoji. have become so popular that Twitter, the 140-character microblogging social media, decided to support emojis on the its main website.
Before, users could only view emojis on Twitter's apps for mobile devices, but they appeared as little empty boxes on the web. With the latest update, users can now see emojis in all their colorful, expressive glory on desktop as well, Twitter announced.
Twitter enlisted Twitterrific from The Iconfactory to design its own character set for web tweets, allowing for a much-improved experience across platforms.
At the time it was released, emojis are only showing up in black and white in embedded tweets. The expanded emoji support on Twitter comes after the company updated its iOS and Android apps to enable photo-tagging.
