Ever tried but failed to find an emoji to describe that certain je ne sais quoi while you’re texting a friend? Wish you could take the best of the “surprised face” emoji and add a bit of “smiling cat” ...

A Twitter account called @EmojiMashupBot has been programmed to do the Lord’s work—taking two emojis and blending them together to birth a single beautiful new emoji. It may not sound like much at ...

I am an emoji scrooge. I’m very stingy with them, a real smiley miser. I groan when I see a string of them in a group chat. I send them only to my sister, mother, grandma and – in very, very extreme ...

Every year, the Unicode Consortium, the organization which oversees emoji development, adds new emoji ranging from hand gestures to objects. Now a bot on Twitter is trying to create fresh emoji by ...

The Emoji Mashup Bot earning kudos on Twitter was designed by a student learning how to code. A new bot Twitter account has quickly earned a large following after tweeting mashup emojis every hour.

The aerial tramway (🚡) has been Twitter’s least-used emoji for the past 76 days. I know this because of Least Used Emoji Bot (@leastUsedEmoji), an automated Twitter account that provides an update of ...

Every so often, the sun shines on Twitter. Emoji Weather USA is just one of many bot-driven weather accounts on Twitter. However, this bot is a little special because it shows its forecast using only ...

Shopping via bots is nothing new, but Kip wants to make it as easy as entering a few emoji. The problem is, emojis aren’t very specific, and bots are pretty dumb. To start, Kip (already available for ...

Twitter in 2017 [or the era of Donald Trump] can be a noisy and anxiety-inducing place. If our feeds aren't bursting with shouty all-caps Twitter rants about politics, they're brimming with news ...

Need some music inspiration? A new Facebook Messenger bot might be able to help. Apple recently rolled out an Apple Music Messenger Bot that allows users to find new tunes via a simple chat or even an ...

For the uninitiated, emoji are special characters, like a winking face, dancing girl or, yes, pile of poop. They’re approved and distributed by the Unicode Consortium, which creates guidelines needed ...