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WORLD EMOJI DAY SPECIAL BLOG

Hey readers , happy world emoji day to all of you .
History behind world emoji day :
The first ever emoji was created in 1999 by Shigetaka Kurtia , an engineer who was working at a Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo's integrated mobile internet service ''i-mode'' debuting in February 1999. Further, in Yahoo messenger the oldest mainstream emoji was used in 2010, Unicode emoji was finalized.
With over 994 characters like emotions of families , heart , animals , clothes , food , city , images clocks and even country flags .
Why was World Emoji Day Created ???
World Emoji Day was created by the Founder of Emoji pedia named Jeremy Burge . Every month Emoji pedia serves over 25 million emoji lookups . On 11 July 2014 the first tweet about the World Emoji Day emerged #WORLD EMOJI DAY .
The major aim and purpose of World Emoji Day is to promote the use of Emoji and the enjoyment they spread around us . In the year 2020 , more than 110 new emojis are added including Bubble Tea , Smiling Face with tear , bottle feeding parents .
In today's digital era , emojis have become a source of non verbal communication they are the outcome of the most recent evolution of human language as we all connect through electronic devices and social media .
Emojis also convey emotions indirectly and it thus fills the gap between communication . The word emoji means described by Japanese 'e' stands for picture and 'moji ' stands for character .
Statistical Data About the usage of Emojis in real life :
900M emojis are sent on Facebook without any written text .
700M emojis are used in Facebook posts .
The biggest day for usage of emojis worldwide is New year's eve .
Most used Emoji on Twitter is Face with Tears of Joy .
57% of emoji users on Twitter are women .
Mid 2015 on Instagram included an emoji .
For the year 2020 117 new emojis were introduced which includes toothbrush , bubble tea , Transgender flag and a Black Cat .


Enjoy this day and do share , comment , like and keep spreading the joy of usage of emojis at large .
ENJOY READING AND DO COMMENT YOUR FAV EMOJI .
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Pranav Neev
Pranav Neev
Jul 17, 2021

I never even imagined these types of days in our life everyday.... There's a festival... That's why people say- Life is full of joy😊

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