A recent survey reveals America's emoji preferences. The Face with Tears of Joy is the most popular. Rolling on the Floor ...

As of last week, there are now 3,053 emoji, counting the 230 just approved for this year’s cohort—yes, the icons now get annual releases, like Microsoft Word or tax returns. As a white man ...

Emoji are popular among users, who include them in text messages and posts on Instagram and Twitter. Unicode introduced 250 new emoji in June, but the release was criticized for doing little to ...

Emoji have become important. They’ve permeated our conversations and our messaging apps and our popular culture to a degree that no one could have anticipated just a few years ago, and when your ...

Emoji presented a new and unique dilemma to Unicode. “With most text, you don’t have things being invented left, right, and center,” says Peter Constable, the vice-president of Unicode.

A Change.org petition calls for a hot dog emoji, a Facebook page demanding a taco emoji has more than 1,000 likes, and thousands follow a Twitter account advocating for an avocado emoji.

Perhaps more important, the sheer diversity of emoji makes them a viable tool for crossing language and cultural barriers — and could see them effectively become a pidgin language of their own.