Twitter may soon launch Facebook-styled emojis

Twitter to soon bring emojis for users as an additional way to better express themselves. The Twitter emoji research is still in early stages.

San Francisco: Twitter is working on a new feature where its users will be able to express themselves in Facebook-style emojis.

The micro-blogging platform has begun a survey asking users, how they feel about a broader set of emoji-style reactions, reports TechCrunch.

"We're exploring additional ways for people to express themselves in conversations happening on Twitter," a Twitter spokesperson was quoted as saying in the report.

The survey proposes reaction emojis, like a heart (like), laughing face with tears (funny), thinking face (interesting) and crying face (sad), among others.

Twitter is also planning a general likes or dislikes for the tweet with either a thumbs up or thumbs down and more such emojis.

The survey "asked the respondents how they would want to take advantage of a downvote or dislike".

Twitter emoji research is still in the early stages. Few users have already started to tweet on the new emoji feature of Twitter.

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Twitter's design chief Dantley Davis recently hinted that such emojis might be coming soon.

"We'll have something for you soon," he replied to a user who said that Twitter should go the way of LinkedIn and Facebook and offer several reaction emojis rather than just a heart.

Twitter has already been launching emojis for specific days and festivals, especially in India.

(Inputs from IANS)