In total there are 3,304 emojis in the Unicode Standard as of March 2020. This includes sequences for gender or skin tone, flags, and the components that are used to create keycap, flag, and other sequences. The latest emoji release is Emoji 13.0. (Source: Unicode)
World Emoji Awards
Each year on July 17, Emojipedia hosts the World Emoji Awards. In 2020, these will reveal:
🏆📈 Most Popular New Emoji. Any emoji approved in 2019 is eligible, determined by which is most used on Twitter.
🥇 1st Place: TBD
🥈 2nd Place: TBD
🥉 3rd Place: TBD
🗳🤗 Most Anticipated Emoji. Any emoji approved in 2020 is eligible, user-voted. These aren't on most phones yet.
🦠✊🏿 Most 2020 Emoji. User-voted bracket to determine which emoji best represents 2020. Finalists:
🦠 Microbe
✊🏿 Raised Fist: Dark Skin Tone
Recent Emoji Trends
Regarding emoji trends, a recent Emojipedia analysis found the following:
☺️📉 The relative use of positive smiley face emojis is on the decline (down 5.63%)
🥺⏫ Pleading Face is experiencing surging popularity
📊📈 The top ten emojis used on Twitter are relatively stable
🔝😂 Face with Tears of Joy remains the most used emoji on Twitter
💕🆙 Emoji use as a whole continues to rise, with nearly one in five tweets now containing at least one emoji
🤔🦠 The increase in emoji use has been potentially slowed by our new normal, but its too soon to say this with certainty
😃👍 Smileys & People still dominate in terms popular emoji categories, while 🔣 Symbols are on the decline
✈️⤵️ Emojis in the Travel & Places category have seen larger than usual decreases recently, possibly due to travel restrictions
See also: Coronavirus-related emoji trends.
Emoji Popularity: Twitter
According to an Emojipedia analysis, the top 13 emojis used on Twitter in April 2020 were:
😂 Face with Tears of Joy
😭 Loudly Crying Face
🥺 Pleading Face
🤣 Rolling on the Floor Laughing
❤️ Red Heart
✨ Sparkles
😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes
🙏 Folded Hands
😊 Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes
🥰 Smiling Face with Hearts
👍 Thumbs Up
💕 Two Hearts
🤔 Thinking Face
Emoji Usage
😲 One in five tweets now includes an emoji (19.04%)
💬 5 billion emojis are sent daily on Facebook Messenger
📸 By mid-2015, half of all comments on Instagram included an emoji
🍑 Only 7% of people use the peach emoji as a fruit
The rest mostly use it as a butt or for other non-fruit uses
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