Emoticons on Social Network: Facebook, Twitter, Sina Weibo

when you post Unicode emoticons on Facebook, some of them get turned into images automatically.

here's the actual Unicode characters:

👍 👎 👌 👊 ❕ ❕ ❕ 😃 😄 😱 😸 👸 👽 👍

Here is what Sina Weibo (a social network in China) shows:

You can see that, they have different style of drawings, and not all Unicode emoticons are changed to images.

This is a conscious decision. When you design the website, you have to decide which Unicode characters should be changed to images, and you have to have a graphic artist to draw the emoticons.

Here is more comparison:

Here is the Unicode characters:

😀 😁 😂 😃 😄 😅 😆 😇 😈 😉 😊 😋 😌 😎 , 😙 😚 😗 😘 😍 , 😛 😜 😝 , 😴 😩 😫 😪 , 😏 😐 😑 😓 😔 😕 😖 , 😮 😯 😰 😱 😲 😳 😵 😶 😷 , 😒 😠 😡 , 😞 😟 😣 😤 😥 😦 😧 😨 😬 , 😢 😭

Note: on Google Plus, Unicode emoticon characters are not changed to images.

2014-04-02

Twitter, as of today 2014-04-02, started to show emoticons as images.

2014-04-08

Cat Faces Emoticons on Twitter and Facebook

Original unicode cat face characters: 😸 😹 😺 😻 😼 😽 😾 😿 🙀

Install Unicode 6 Font

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