Social Platforms Share Insights into Emoji Usage for World Emoji Day
Today is International Emoji Day, and to mark the occasion, Instagram and Twitter have shared some new emoji usage insights, which could help to get you thinking about your emoji use.
Because let’s face it, you use emojis. Virtually everyone now uses emoji response in some way, with emoji usage rising every year.

Instagram has chosen to focus on sports with its Emoji Day insights, with the most popular sports emojis in the app based on usage in different regions.
Note that soccer actually comes out above all of these, and I would also suggest that the visual nature of the app also plays a part in which emojis are most used in each region.
Over on Twitter, the Twitter Business handle has shared its own display of its most used emojis.
It’s interesting to consider which emojis are your own most used, and what that says about your presence. Though Twitter also has the advantage of being able to extract this data into a word cloud, which is not easy without API access – but you likely know which are your most used emojis via your own process. Read More...