I think so. They've become quite popular, I first noticed them from Apple users and wondered how they were creating neat little wing-dings type images in their

I think so. They've become quite popular, I first noticed them from Apple users and wondered how they were creating neat little wing-dings type images in their posts, but now it seems everything has emoji options. Recently getdavidhiggins posted a link on HN to http://emoj.li/ http://emoj.li/ - an Emoji only chat. So it seems to be growing in popularity/ubiquity