#TWEETDECK EMOJIS HOW TO#

#TWEETDECK EMOJIS HOW TO#

See, Emoticons: To < 3 or Not to < 3? for a full explanation of how to use emoticons. To take full advantage of this new capability, use your emoticon keyboard on your mobile device. Unfortunately, when tweets are embedded or viewed on TweetDeck, emoticons still turn into black boxes Now a smiley face that used three characters : – ) only uses one 🙂. Now you can use your emoticons on your mobile keyboard and have them appear on your tweets, whether your tweeps are using Twitter on their computers or their phones. Instead of being restricted to boring punctuation to express your emotions, you can now use illustrated emoticons to convey your feelings.Įmoticons used to appear only in the Twitter app for iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch) and Android, but would be translated into empty boxes on Twitter’s website. Perhaps Twitter is trying to encourage people to share more with its recent change enabling emoticons, a/k/a emojis, to be viewed in tweets by people using the website.

While there are always going to be people who only visit Twitter to read, Twitter needs users to tweet so there will be engagement. If you’re not a fan of emoticons, well, sorry about that because you’re probably going to be seeing a lot more of them soon.Īccording to The Wall Street Journal, a recent report by Twopcharts said that 44% of the 974 million existing Twitter accounts have never posted a tweet. If you’re a fan of emoticons, great news! You now can enjoy many more options for using emoticons on Twitter and Facebook.

Tweetdeck emojis