New From #Twitter: Open Source #Emoji

Back in April Twitter teamed up with The Iconfactory to launch a set of 872 Twitter emoji icons for the web. Previously emoji was only supported on Twitter apps with the characters built-in, so this allowed for a much-improved experience across the internet.

On Thursday Twitter released all of their emoji as an open source library, accessible to the developer community around the world.

Emojis originated in Japan and the term translates literally as “picture character”.

Twitter has teamed up with Automattic so that the new emojis are immediately supported in WordPress.*

Since we’ve gotten many requests to use our emoji in various projects, as of today we’re open sourcing our emoji.