With World Emoji Day set to go down on this Sunday, July 17th, Twitter Canada has released an infographic that details the 10 most used emoji by Canadians.
While the company’s information on emoji usage is limited to data gleaned from its platform, it’s probably fair to say a more comprehensive study would return similar results. Preamble aside, let’s get to the results.
In first place, is the face with tears of joy emoji. That it should take the top spot is unsurprising. According to Emojipedia, the foremost authority on such matters, this emoji, approved as a part of Unicode 6.0, spent all of 2015 on the site’s list of 10 most popular emoji. It was even deemed the 2015 word of the year by the Oxford English Dictionary.
Following it the always dependable heart eyes emoji. Like its above counterpart, it was approved as a part of Unicode 6.0 back in 2010. Almost 90 percent of pop song are about love and so it goes with emoji usage; four of the top 10 emoji have at least one heart incorporated in their design.
Number six, the fire emoji, is interesting in so far as it speaks to the rising popularity of apps like Snapchat and Tinder, which use the emoji as part of their interface design. This emoji’s popularity likely also has a lot to do with “lit” becoming a common way to express that something is cool or awesome.
Interestingly, no Canadian specific emoji made their way into the list. Seems Tim Hortons’ EHmoji app was not a runaway success. Bummer.
[source]Twitter[/source]
