The Breakroom

Twitter Expands Twemoji for Unicode 9

July 13, 2016

By Ged Maheux

Twitter Twemoji Unicode 9 examples

Twitter has published an update to their custom suite of emoji – Twemoji – that covers over 70 new icons from the Unicode 9.0 specification. The Iconfactory was pleased to once again help Twitter bring these new additions to the social networking service. The update covers a wide range of subjects including an expanded set of diverse skin tones, food, animals and more.

Jeremy Burge has compiled a complete list of the new Twemoji which rolled out today along with a few notable updates to the existing Twitter suite over at Emojipedia’s blog. Be sure to check it out.

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