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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @07:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @07:04PM (#183057)

    "Using Firefox 37, everything is visible as expected. Those who cannot see it upgrade to a browser that supports emoji."

    Firefox 38 on OS X 10.6 does NOT support emojis out-of-the-box.

    Firefox 38 on OS X 10.7 DOES support emojis out-of-the-box.

    Those who cannot see it upgrade to an OS that supports emoji.

  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday May 14 2015, @07:20PM

    by captain normal (2205) on Thursday May 14 2015, @07:20PM (#183067)

    Why? Friends don't let friends use FF. (aside--is Firefox only up to version 37? When I quit using them over daily updates slowing down my work, I was sure they'd be up to V.5000.00 by now.)

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