Emoji Timeline

A timeline of cultural and technical events in the history of emoji

2013

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Emojitracker

Matthew Rothenberg, a hacker from Brooklyn, New York, launches Emojitracker. A website which in real-time tracks every tweet that’s written and contains an emoji. To date (November 2017) over 20 billion tweets have been tracked with the values being incremental since Emojitracker launched. The clear winner being the most tweeted emoji is, for the time being, “Face With Tears of Joy”, with over 1 billion.

Emojitracker