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Interestingly, Twitter only has its emoji SVGs down.
by thrdbndndn 5y ago
Interestingly, Twitter only has its emoji SVGs down.
- oneeyedpigeon 5y agoAnd this is (one reason) why using images instead of actual emojis is such a stupid idea. Why, Twitter, WHY?
- bb010g 5y agoBranding! (Fun fact: Hacker News strips emoji.)
- busymom0 5y agoHow does it strip it? Test: Edit: You are right. It got rid of the emoji after Test.
- numpad0 5y agoerr, to make representations platform independent?
- oneeyedpigeon 5y agoThat sounds antithetical to the purpose of emojis.
- mbreese 5y agoSame reason why Gmail uses their own emojis rather than the system ones — (as said above) branding. When you send a tweet, Twitter wants it to look identical across all devices. The classic native UI vs cross-platform UI debate in a nutshell.
- gspr 5y agoCool, so instead of actually serving text, they could also just serve up little SVGs for each letter. Because god forbid the recipient chooses a different font than Gmail!
- dolmen 5y agoThat's not a minor UI issue. Twitter is a media between people. Removing emoji representation differences on user devices is a way to hopefully reduce misunderstandings between users.
- numpad0 5y agoVendors don’t even agree on whether the :gun: is a revolver or an automatic or space ray guns or even water guns, btw it’s an 1911 in original DoCoMo emojis 1: https://blog.emojipedia.org/content/images/2018/04/microsoft-windows-pistol-emoji.gif https://blog.emojipedia.org/content/images/2018/04/microsoft...
- oneeyedpigeon 5y agoSure, that's a benefit of emojis being semantic. If you want 'SFW' emojis, you can get them. Converting them to images makes that impossible. And uses vastly more bandwidth, makes them impossible to copy+paste, probably has accessibility issues, etc.