The clapping hands emoji: When used repetitively in a row, it signifies applause, but as any social media user by now understands, that is not the emoji's primary placement in the world of Twitter.

Twitter revealed there was a 50 percent increase in the use of the praying hand emoji Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has been with the brand since 2017 ...

is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. Twitter is testing emoji reactions for tweets that go beyond a ...

Jesse Hill just took emoji videos to another level, guys. Hill took Beyoncé's popular single "Drunk in Love" and gave it the emoji treatment by putting together a sequence of our favorite Japanese ...

Anyone with a smartphone and a taste for tacos (so pretty much all of San Diego) will welcome this news: There may be a taco emoji as early as next year! And a burrito emoji! If your reaction was like ...

All of the thumbs up emojis! (And perhaps a clapping emoji, too.) Apple has just pushed out its much-anticipated suite of racially diverse emojis with its new iOS 8.3. Users of the adorable icons have ...