In another Twitter example nativity scene features of its direct competitors, the company announced that it would test emoji reactions for users from all over Turkey over the next few weeks with a possible wider deployment if all goes well. According to the company, the new emoji list is meant to help people “express themselves quickly in Twitter conversations,” in cases where a simple push of a like button won’t cut it.
For a limited time, the company explained, Turkish tweeters will be able to access four additional reactions on top of the big red heart the company displayed. in 2015. This includes a thinking emoji (for tweets that make you think), a sad emoji (for tweets that make you sad), a laughing / crying emoji (for tweets that make you laugh / cry), and an … applauding emoji (presumably for congratulatory tweets). Depending on how users respond to this little test, Twitter may change different emojis or implement these features in other countries in the future.
However, Twitter is relatively late in the emoji game: the company only launched reactions to Twitter DM’s last year, months after Linkedin gave to its users the power to react to other Linkedin posts and years after Facebook he did the same. It’s also worth noting that of these three, Facebook is the only one that wants to to include an “angry” reaction in your list. Although Twitter causes many of us feel like throw our laptops by the window pure unbridled anger, the faces Twitter chose for its own emoji slots feel kind, thoughtful and compassionate. Leaving a tearful face in some bile-laden political meme doesn’t mean the same bite as leaving a bright red 😡.
In fact, Twitter began planning to formally deploy a wider variety of emoji, including a side-eyed emoji, a party hat, and a bright “100” reading –in 2015, but removed these tests shortly thereafter. This list of thinnest emoji, according to Twitter, comes from the company’s attempt to “find emojis that are universally recognizable and that represent what people want to express about tweets.”
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To find out, Twitter conducted surveys, examined the most used emojis across the site, and tried to find out the “most important emotions” that tweeters wanted to express on the site across different cultures. Among these emotions, on Twitter, were “joy”, “interest”, “sadness”, “agreement” and “curiosity”, which gives us the list we are seeing in Turkey right now. Apparently, “frustration” and “anger” were also on the list, but they didn’t make the cut; apparently due to the company’s attempts to do so keep users away of the Toxic convoys on Twitter that we know and hate. But depending on how this test is received, who knows, we may see some reactions with the middle fingers in our feeds at some point in the future.