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.” ...

Prof Evans has partnered with the telecoms firm to create a new online video tutorial called Emoji IQ, which is aimed at improving understanding of the symbols and their meanings. Andy Murray ...

Where there's an emoticon, there's usually an emoji - where the sentiment is expressed as a tiny colourful picture instead of a text-based symbol. In some cases these symbols are used to mean ...