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📊 Statistics World Emoji Day is now in its seventh year. The event was founded by Jeremy Burge of Emojipedia in 2014. Here are some facts about emojis and World Emoji Day:

🌎 Social Stats During #WorldEmojiDay social media is a buzz with chatter about all things emoji.

Over 100 tweets per minute are typically sent using the #WorldEmojiDay hashtag during the event - with it rising to over 175 tweets per minute at peak times.

The #WorldEmojiDay hashtag generates over 4 billion Twitter impressions each year.

In 2020, the #WorldEmojiDay hashtag became the number 1 worldwide trend on Twitter.

For 2019, over 190,000 Twitter accounts joined in, sending over 300,000 related tweets.

In 2018, over 150,000 Twitter accounts took part by using the #WorldEmojiDay hashtag.

📈 Emoji Statistics Facebook

💬 Over 900M emojis are sent every day without text on Facebook Messenger

📈 More than 700M emojis are used in Facebook posts every day

🎆 The biggest day for emoji usage on Messenger is New Year’s Eve

Twitter

Twitter Emoji Tracker

📊 The most used emoji on Twitter is 😂 Face With Tears of Joy

👶 86% of emoji users on Twitter are 24 or younger

👩‍💻 57% of emoji users on Twitter are Women

Instagram

📸 By mid-2015, half of all comments on Instagram included an emoji

Apple

Top 10 emojis sent on iOS are:

😂
🤍
😭
😍
😘
🙄
💀
😊
😩
🤔

📋 Emoji Facts

For 2020, 117 new emojis were introduced, including a toothbrush, bubble tea, Transgender flag, black cat and more.
In 2019 over 200 new emojis were introduced — this figure includes variations (for things like skin tone and gender). These emojis arrived on all major platforms in the second half of 2019.
New emojis introduced in 2019 included a sloth, flamingo, yawning face and butter.
157 new emojis were approved in 2018, which brought the then total number of emojis to 2,823. New emojis in 2018 included redheads, a softball, kangaroo, lobster, and skateboard.
In 2018, this Game of Thrones tweet proved to be the most popular of the day.
In 2019, this tweet about the South Korean boy band BTS proved popular with fans.
😂 The ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ emoji remains a favorite on Twitter. In fact it’s the most popular emoji on the platform with over 2,000,000,000 (two billion) uses according to Emojitracker.
🎂 The most popular emojis across Facebook include favorites like ‘Face With Tears of Joy’ and ‘Smiling Face with Heart Eyes’, but also the ‘Birthday Cake’ emoji — for all those birthday greetings Facebook reminds you about.
🍑 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.