And, as of this year, according to a breakdown of the website emojitracker by Luminoso, a text-­analytics company, the tilde was surpassed in usage on Twitter by the emoji symbol for “joy.” ...

You can bring up the Character Viewer (also called Emoji & Symbols) through several methods: You might first see the Emoji & Symbols viewer. When it first appears, the viewer might be in an ...

“Personally, I define the start date of emoji as the point in time when sets of these symbols first appeared for use whilst composing text,” Sephton wrote. “I don’t think the timeline ...