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Tweet Emoji 4 Pizza: #Epitome of #Convenience

posted by CoolHand on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the emoji-over-emoticon dept.

takyon writes:

You can now tweet a 🍕 emoji to Domino's in order to initiate a pizza transaction.

Emoji use differs by country. "Canadians lead the charge in their use of money, violence, sports-related, raunchy, and even the poop emoji," says SwiftKey's chief marketing officer, Joe Braidwood.

Americans are second behind Canada in their love of violent emojis, such as guns.

But one thing Americans also really, really love is pizza.

"Pizza was one of the most frequently used [emojis] in the U.S., as well as the chicken drumstick ... and I think it shows you that, versus other nations, you guys have particular food habits," Braidwood says.

Be careful with 🔫s and 🍆.

Emoji In the Unicode standard at Wikipedia.
Draft Emoji Data at the Unicode Consortium.

💩/10.

[ED NOTE: The &#####; markup for these characters are legit. Are you able to see them, or are you seeing unknown character boxes? What font are you using? -LaminatorX]

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by gman003 on Thursday May 14 2015, @03:00PM

    by gman003 (4155) on Thursday May 14 2015, @03:00PM (#182924)

    I can see them. The font for most of the line is Verdana but apparently the emojis are rendering in Segoe UI Symbol. I guess Firefox is smart enough to use whatever font is necessary to render weird characters.

    As a side note on a side note, they're kind of hard to read without zooming in - at 100% zoom, the only one I can identify is the gun emoji, the other three needed some amount of zoom to actually make sense to my eyes. So if you're going to make emojis a regular feature of the site, maybe increase the font size a bit?</joke>

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @03:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @03:09PM (#182929)

    Ditto, Firefox 37 on Windows. Small and somewhat cryptic, but cute. So count me as a win.