July 17 is Emoji day - chosen because that is the date shown on most calendar emojis. The first emoji were invented by ...

In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries declared the "face with tears of joy" emoji its word of the year. New York's Museum of Modern art has added the original emoji set to its permanent collection.

While the sad crying emoji wasn’t far behind it as sixth most popular – after hearts, smiles, applause and thumbs up – people are surprisingly upbeat about the news. 2) Music.

Twitter’s direct messages now support emoji reactions. To use them, you can either tap the small “heart and plus icon” that appears to the right of messages you receive, or double tap a ...