The most used emojis in 2023

2023-07-19 09:10:05

Two significant milestones for Emojipediathe popular service that collects the nice smileys and symbols that now accompany almost all our communications: the 10th World Emoji Day and the 10-year anniversary of its foundation.

It has therefore been 10 years since the founder, Jeremy Burgeposted the first tweet announcing the arrival of the platform.

Want to know what an emoji means? is your answer.

— Emojipedia (@Emojipedia) July 17, 2013

Technology, way of using the internet, consumption habits. Everything has radically changed in these ten years, including the use we have made of the nice smileys over time.

At the platform’s debut in 2013, what were the most used emojis?

The most used emojis in 2013

An interesting note is that these figures refer to “10,000 tweets”. This means that for every 10,000 tweets, 62 contained at least one “???? Happy Tears Face” emoji, which is one for every 161 tweets (0.62%).

However, according to data collected during early 2023, the ???? Face With Tears of Joy emoji appears at least once every 45 tweets (2.24%), an increase of 261.29%.

How has the overall use of emoji on Twitter increased since the founding of Emojipedia?

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Le emoji were given by Twitter 2013-2023

In July 2013, only regarding 4 out of 100 tweets contained at least one emoji (4.25%) – so one out of 25 tweets contained an emoji ???? Face With Tears Of Joy, ???? Smiling Face With Heart Eyes, ???? Blowing Face a kiss, or any of the other approximately 720 emoji characters recommended by Unicode at the time (since Unicode 6.1).

But in the last 10 years the growth has been exponential: data collected in March 2023 indicated that nearly 27 out of 100 tweets (26.7%) contained at least one of the now 3,664 emoji characters.

This incredible growth over the past 10 years is captured in the chart below, with March 2023 accounting for the highest emoji usage rate on Twitter — a new record since 2022.

In fact, every month since July 2022 has set a new all-time record for emoji usage on Twitter, as shown above. Additionally, if you compare January 2013 to March 2023, you see an overall increase in emoji use of regarding 724%.

Top 10 Twitter Emojis: 2023

With this incredible growth in emoji usage over the past 10 years, what are the most popular emojis in the world today?

Below is data from Twitter in early 2023.