Twitter Unlocks Special Celebration Emoji for The New Year - http://clapway.com/2016/01/01/twitter-unlocks-special-celebration-emoji-for-the-new-year-123/

Parts of the world are already celebrating the beginning of 2016, and many have turned to Twitter to spread the cheer. There are already thousands of tweets of people confessing their wishes, resolutions and showcasing how the celebrate on the social media platform.

To Celebrate, Twitter Has Launched A Fireworks Emoji

This new emoji can be unlocked when people use certain hashtags on the platform. The hashtags are all related to the New Year – #HappyNewYear in English and its alternative in over 35 other language.

This is to unite the entire Twitter user base in one place, with the trendiest hashtag of every December 31st. Other languages that will turn on the emoji include: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Portuguese, Punjabi, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and even Urdu.

Twitter Partners Up with Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment

The companies that organize the biggest event of the year, the Times Square New Year’s Eve in New York City. They will be showcasing the conversation going on on Twitter. Both tweets and videos will be fully on display under the Times Square Ball, which even has it’s own Twitter handle. It will also be displayed in other screens in the area for the million people that will be in the area tonight.

New Year’s Tweets Will Be Showcased Across the Globe

The messages will not be limited to the Twitter platform and Times Square. Times Square New Year’s Eve will be sharing content from the even with broadcasters from around the globe. The yearly ball drop gathers more than a billion viewers every year, and 2015 will be no different.

This event, historic in all parts of the world, unites everyone. It connects people from Honolulu to Fiji and everywhere in between. The new special emoji is one more way to welcome 2016 in style and as one.

Safety Tips for New Year’s Eve

We can expect to see the screens of Time Square with year-end celebrations of all kinds, as people gather at the landmark by the masses. It’s also important to stay safe as well, as masses can get over-excited. Always travel in groups and never drink and drive. Make sure to look out for yourself and your own!

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Twitter Unlocks Special Celebration Emoji for The New Year

Language Doesn"t Matter Anymore - Emoji Do! - http://clapway.com/2015/11/17/language-doesnt-matter-anymore-emoji-do123/

The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year has been announced, and it’s not a word of a phrase. It’s the Face with Tears of Joy emoji. This was marked the most popular emoji by SwiftKey, along with ‘brexit’, ‘on fleek’ and ‘lumbersexual’.

Is it All Going Downhill From Here?

Texting with emoji as opposed to words has been widely spread, and this result is a direct reflection of the trend. Will the Oxford Dictionaries now feature definitions for the different Emoji on the upcoming keyboards?

It’s possible that this kicks off the trend for real and people start replacing words for these icons until we’re speaking in one script – the emoji script. If institutions like the Oxford Dictionaries do give entire definitions for the emoji keyboard, we could unite the world with one language.

The Trend is Laughable, But Not to be Taken Lightly

If the Face with Tears of Joy is really representative of 2015, then we can expect to see emoji becoming more intricate and spread to more cultures.

The trio of dancing girls could even become the next way to invite girlfriends to a night out. At this point, anything could happen. Perhaps the word of 2016 is a Facebook sticker, or something of the sort.

What’s in a language, anyway?

Emoji

Language Doesn"t Matter Anymore - Emoji Do!

EmojiWorks Releases Emoji Keyboard - http://clapway.com/2015/11/05/emojiworks-releases-emoji-keyboard123/

EmojiWorks has released the Emoji Keyboard, so there’s no more time wasted swiping left or right for the perfect emoji. The keyboard is available for Mac, Windows and connects to tablets via Bluetooth, and it’s sure to bring one more seemingly useless but actually useful gadgets to your home or office.

The emoji keyboard is designed like any other, except it has two to three of the latest batch of emojis per key, and by using the shift keys on the keyboard, all emojis are at the tips of our fingers.

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The emoji keyboard has limited availability and costs $100, which is quite a steep price given the fact that most people wouldn’t want to use emojis from outside their phones and that emoji keyboards are available for all iOS devices or have otherwise an alternative for Android phones. Current pointers say that this could be of interest to a very small group of people that either don’t have much time to spend typing or have too much time to spend texting, but either way, the emoji keyboard is sure to bring some more flare to every buyer’s messaging life. Orders can be placed through the emoji website, and it’s still yet to be discovered how the company will sell the product after it releases another update. It’s to be assumed that other generations of the emoji keyboard will be a regular product out of the company.

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Every State In The United States Has An Emoji - http://clapway.com/2015/08/19/every-state-in-the-united-states-has-an-emoji123/

We are obsessed with emoji. That’s a fact. We’ll send text with a smiley face next to sushi next to a psycho cat. It doesn’t matter: an emoji says a thousand words.

Emoji mania

Did you know that 74% of Americans report using emoji every single day? Little digital images are gradually colonizing our virtual lives.

A study from smartphone keyboard maker SwiftKey attempts to discover what emojis are popular in each state. The results — dubbed The United States of Emoji

— are based on the analysis of more than one billion emoji used in throughout the U.S.

Learning about how Americans use emoji

The cactus was the top emoji used in Arizona, while the Statue of Liberty icon was most frequently used in New York. Researchers came up with a handful of the fascinating – and sometimes totally obvious – insights. You can dig into the rest of the data with their interactive map here.

“If you were to go by media coverage, you might think we’ve stopped using traditional language altogether and replaced it with one characterized by tiny yellow doodles, smiling poo, and LOTS of trains,” the report states. SwiftKey has also launched Emoji Insights, three new stats that tell Americans about their emoji use.

Why are we into emojis?

This latest study represents the follow-up of similar research SwiftKey carried out globally– revealing the most popular emoji across 16 different languages. Happy faces, sad faces and hearts were found to be the three most popular emojis overall. The ultimate aim was to reveal how different nationality use emoji differently, from the United States to France to Turkey.

“Emoji are a great way to add personality to a text-based conversation,” stated Jeremy Burge, the founder of website Emojipedia told Mashable. Like the name suggests, it’s an encyclopedia for all things emoji.

While most use emoji to add a little color to a conversation, others are literally obsessed. Dr. Owen Churches, of the school of psychology at Flinders University in Australia, conducted a study on emoticons, which showed that people reacted to them the same way they would react to a real human face.

What do you think of the rise of the United States of emoji? Share your views in the comments section below.

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Every State In The United States Has An Emoji

Facebook Shows Us the Evolution of E-Laughter - http://clapway.com/2015/08/10/facebook-shows-us-the-evolution-of-e-laughter123/

No matter what language you speak, laughter is one thing that is universal. But a new Facebook study published in response to a fun New Yorker article suggests that the way we laugh online has a way of varying depending on where we live, how old we are, and what language we speak.

The Dialect of E-Laughing

E-Laughter used to be dominated by the phrase “lol”, but Facebook’s new study shows that the act of laughing out loud is being expressed in a more literal and direct way rather than simple narrating actions.

The most common way to type out a laugh now is simply typing “haha.” Emoji is the second most popular way and “hehe” follows up close after. As it turns out, people still saying “lol” are a lot less hip than they might think.

The Facebook study shows that 51.4 percent of all posts and comments containing strings of laughter are expressed through the use of “haha.” Emoji makes up 33.7 percent, “hehe” accounts for 13.1 percent, and lol has fallen all the way down to just 1.9 percent.

Geography Is a Big Factor

Geography is perhaps one of the biggest factors in determining which phrase of laughter you might use. Facebook says that people who live on the west coast prefer to use different combinations of “haha” and “hehe” when expressing laughter, but their east coast brothers and sisters prefer to use emoji’s as their preferred method of laughter. Southern states are still using “lol.”

Battle of the Sexes

Men and women also seem to enjoy phrasing their laughter in different ways. Men prefer to use words like “haha” and “hehe” when they’re communicating with people online. Women seem to enjoy using “haha” and “hehe” as well, but they also predominantly make up the majority of the people who use emojis, and they use “lol” more often than men as well.

Facebook analyzed the data from comments and posts only, that means that no private messages were read, which also means that the data is a bit skewed.

Do you agree with Facebook’s study? Let us know in the comments.

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Facebook Shows Us the Evolution of E-Laughter

Haha or LOL? Studies Show How We Represent Laughter On Facebook - http://clapway.com/2015/08/10/haha-or-lol-studies-show-how-we-laughter-on-facebook123/

Whether you are looking at a ‘laugh out loud’ video on Youtube or your friend’s birthday album on Facebook, everyone loves to go online to have a good laugh. What’s even more interesting, is just how we express our upmost amusement when online.

A new study on Facebook compared how often people use the popular terms “lol,” “haha,” “hehe,” or an emoji (also known as e – laughs) to represent laughter. It may be no surprise to hear that the most obvious sounding “haha”, and similar variations such as “hahaha” and “haaaaaahaaaa” came out on top. “Haha” is reportedly used around 51.4% of the time, while a simple “lol” was voted as being used just 1.9% during online conversations. The recent rise in emojicons was also evident in the findings, with them being used over 30% of the time online. “Hehe” scored less than 20%.

MEN USE HAHA MORE OFTEN THAN WOMEN

The researchers at Facebook studied anonymous posts from the last week of May 2015 and found that 15 percent of people on Facebook included some sort of laughter in a post or comment. While 52 percent stuck to the same expression, around 20 percent switched between two different variations. The majority of men were found to use “haha” most frequently while women were more inclined to use emojis to express their laughter, as well as using the term “lol” in conversations.

CHICAGO LOVE THEIR EMOJIS

The expression of laughter on Facebook also varied depending on the location of the user. Emoji use was the highest in Chicago, Illinois. The areas that used “lol” the most were Seattle and San Francisco. “Lol” wasn’t the preferred or most frequent expression of laughter for any city on Facebook, but in Phoenix, Arizona it was reportedly used the most.

15 PERCENT OF PEOPLE USED AT LEAST ONE E-LAUGH THAT WEEK

According to the Facebook study, roughly 15 percent of those analysed used at least one e-laugh.  Other findings stated that 46 percent of the group only posted one laugh during the week and 85 percent of them posted fewer than five laughs. The study also analyzed the different kinds of laughs that people used and found that 52 percent used a single type of laugh.

Laughter is great both online and offline. It is good exercise too. Whether you are prone to an emoji or two, a simple “lol” or a “hahahaha”, make sure you keep it up. A day with laughter is the best kind.

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Haha or LOL? Studies Show How We Represent Laughter On Facebook