Emoticons available on Twitter

The twitters could discover that emoticons are now available on Twitter. Moreover, this microblogging network, they have a special name: they are called "emoji", a Japanese term (meaning "pictogram") designating the emoticons. This update is primarily intended to harmonize mobile and web versions: small drawings were reserved for Twitter users via their smartphone and when read on a computer, abbreviations were replaced by small squares. This great news was announced by the team on the site, via a tweet, which wants ... emojiparty?

So happy to see the little drawings that teens love so much, take the place of letters, a hashtag # emojiparty was even launched to celebrate this happy news. But if Twitter differed many competitors (with Facebook, foreground), because it concentrated expression of its users "choice of words" and not the shock ..., the constraint was the number of "signs "(letters + space = 140 characters) in the tweets. Now, instead of sentences, titles or reflections we can see: