Earlier this month, Twitter surprised everyone by changing its ‘star’ icon for favorites to a ‘heart’, calling them likes. Now it seems that Twitter is not stopping at hearts and plans to incorporate several emoji reactions on its platform.
Twitter user @_Ninji tweeted the screenshots of the emojis including the 100, frown, the grimace, the party noisemaker and many others.
"I can't believe they're finally letting me (100) tweets," @_Ninji tweeted.
When asked that where these emojis were visible in the iOS app, @_Ninji said it is developer-only feature in iOS app that has been obtained using a jailbroken version of the app, The Verge reported.
Explaining it further, @_Ninji said that the feature is incomplete and that if an emoji is assigned to a tweet, it disappears and goes back to a heart.
Facebook Inc. in October started a pilot test of "Reactions” with users able to select from various emotions – love, ha-ha, yay, wow, sad and angry, in Ireland and Spain.
It might take some time for Twitter to roll out the feature for everyone. The company’s official response to The Verge on the matter was just a “Speak-no-evil” monkey. That really says it all!
