Great post, entertainingly written. Back in 2015, Instagram did a blog post on similar challenges they came across implementing emoji hashtags [1]. Spoiler ale

Great post, entertainingly written. Back in 2015, Instagram did a blog post on similar challenges they came across implementing emoji hashtags [1]. Spoiler alert: they programmatically constructed a huge regex to detect them. [1] https://instagram-engineering.com/emojineering-part-ii-implementing-hashtag-emoji-7b653b221c82 https://instagram-engineering.com/emojineering-part-ii-imple...