Emoji is the Japanese term for smileys, or cute little cartoon (yellow) faces to express your emotions during a conversation.

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Nearly all social & messaging services now support emoji & stickers are the more evolved form of emoji. But our favorite micro-blogging website Twitter was “emoji-less” on the web, though it worked with default emoji on Android & iOS. Today Twitter has introduced its own emoji set for web tweets and these are pretty cool.

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Twitter emojis are actually small images so these are supported on nearly all modern browsers. One small thing though; It appears that emojis aren’t supported in embedded tweets.