Earlier , Twitter replaced its star icon that allowed users to favorite a tweet for a more Instagram-friendly heart system, renaming “favorites” to now be called “likes”.
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Twitter’s much-derided decision to switch from a star based favorite button to a heart shaped like button may be short lived with the messaging come microblogging provider reported to be testing multiple emoji based support options instead.
It’s not entirely clear from the shots posted to Twitter how it works, but it appears to be a pop-up menu when a user hovers over the heart and includes 3 pages of 12 emoji each.
In a tweet to The Verge, @_Ninji said the feature, which is still incomplete, is a dev-only feature in iOS.
It’s not really a surprise though that they are looking at introducing emojis as it would be following the same mindset that Facebook had when it introduced emoji reactions to posts, rather than limiting itself to one positive reaction.
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Twitter did not respond to our request for comment, but when asked by The Verge to confirm if it was testing the feature, the company sent a monkey emoji with its hands over its mouth. And this summer, chat client Slack let users react to messages with tons of emoji – users can even make their own. We’d put it at somewhere between thumbs up emoji and popped champagne emoji.
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