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How many characters is an emoji? It seems like a simple question, but on Twitter the answer has not always been clear. Some emojis count as a single character while others eat further into the character count. But now this is changing — Twitter has announced that all emojis will now be treated equally. Previously, emoji that could be modified in various ways — such as changing the skin tone of people — would use up large numbers of characters. No more! Twitter made the announcement about the change in a post to its developer forums : Due to the differences in the way written text and emojis are encoded, many emojis (including emojis where you can apply gender and skin tone) have counted as more characters than other emojis, limiting the room for people to express themselves in other ways. There was also a difference in character counts amongst emojis, adding to the confusion. Moving forward, in support of recent updates to Unicode, Twitter will now count all emojis equ...

If you can"t post comments without tossing in at least one emoji to make your feelings clear, you"ll be glad to know that Instagram has your back. After months of testing, Instagram has introduced an emoji shortcut bar on Android and iOS that offers quick access to your most-used icons when wading into a post"s comments. You won"t have to sift through your phone keyboard emoji selection when you want to send someone a heart touching emoji or tell them their new look is fire. The new shortcut bar is available in a post"s comments section. While typing a comment, you will be shown the set of your most-used emoji. Only the most-used emoji will be available in the shortcut bar. If you want to use a new emoji, you will have to sift through the keyboard manually. Now, you will also have new Superzoom effects to add to your Instagram stories. The new set includes a heart-filled fog with music, paparazzi camera flashes, fire with rock music in the background, a big re...

Google Chrome gets emojis. Emojis , whether you use then often or almost never, has no doubt made texting much more easier. Google Chrome added a new shortcut  to make adding emoji on desktop easier. It’s currently on Chrome Canary , the experimental version of the browser designed for testing. Also users can enable it by going to chrome://flags and searching “emoji,” as spotted by 9to5Google . The latest version of Chrome Canary (67.0.3389.0, according to 9to5Google) features a shortcut that gives access to the colourful emojis characters. From the right-click menu, an "emoji" option on the menu will appears when you right-click any text field. Users can then right-click to get to the emoji option and pull up the emoji options which is available for Mac, Windows, Linux, or Chrome OS, depending on what operating system they’re running. The new features is not really groundbreaking innovation,  considering the fact that there are already ways to pull up ...