Twitter can now apparently let you search for tweets and users using emojis as search terms. Emojipedia pointed it out in a tweet, along with screenshots of people who were using the “fax” emoji.
🆕 ✨ Twitter now supports emojis in 🔍 search. Here are people using the 📠 fax machine emoji for some reason pic.twitter.com/MWO6BrN4sk
— Emojipedia (@Emojipedia) April 28, 2017
I don’t really understand how that would help the average Twitter user in using the website better, except maybe, taking us all to a future where we can say “words? Where we’re going we don’t need words”.
I tried passing a couple of different (and some weird) emojis to the Twitter search box, and came up with some interesting results. Turns out, there isn’t a single emoji I could think of, that isn’t being used by people… and here you were, thinking no one touched that “Alembic” emoji (⚗️).
I found some rather interesting (if weird) tweets with this… This one, for example, was the result of the toilet emoji:
https://twitter.com/MenCodes/status/857959619293007872
Turns out there is a tweet for every single emoji out there… well, I’m assuming; I don’t have enough time to check every single tweet.
Its good to see that and thanks for sharing the news with the us. Now it will be more fun to use twitter.