Twitter May Enhance ‘Likes’ With Emoji Reactions
By Carlton Wilcoxson • November 18, 2015
Though new users have supposedly been more receptive to the hearts, Twitter is now considering an emoji-based reactions feature—much like the one Facebook started testing in October. According to the Guardian, the feature was detected by a user who had access to developer-only updates in the iOS app.
At first glance, it looks like Twitter may offer more emoji options than Facebook, which is currently only testing six emoji reactions in addition to the existing thumbs-up icon. As Fast Company wrote when Facebook announced the update, both features seem to have taken a page from Slack’s playbook: The popular enterprise messaging app introduced emoji reactions in July, which allow users to react to individual messages with a pinned emoji. By adding a range of emojis, Twitter may placate its devoted users, many of whom were up in arms about the switch to hearts.