The face with cowboy hat (🤠), cherries (🍒), and upside down face emoji (🙃) all tend to cause some confusion, with survey responders indicating that these emoji are most often misunderstood.

The plan was to give emoji reactions such as “love” and “angry” five times the weight of a traditional “like” in Facebook’s secret formula, according to an internal company document.

Behind the scenes, Facebook programmed the algorithm that decides what people see in their news feeds to use the reaction emoji as signals to push more emotional and provocative content ...

Twitter is testing emoji reactions. Users in Turkey will be able to respond to tweets with the “Face with tears of joy” emoji, “Thinking face,” “Clapping hands,” “Crying face,” or ...