Who among you has never wondered, at least once, if their emoji choices were really in step with the times or if, perhaps, the personal taste was a little dated? If the answer is yes, we have good news for you: Emojitackerthe famous tool to monitor in real time the popularity of the most loved smileys in the world, has returned to a completely renewed guise.
The World Emoji Day, scheduled for tomorrow 17 July, seems the perfect opportunity to celebrate this return that will make all fans of social statistics and digital culture happy.
What’s new on Emojitracker
For those who do not know or do not remember him, Emojitracker was born more than ten years ago with a goal as simple as it is fascinating, collect statistics of use of emoji on social networks and draw up an updated ranking in real time of the most popular smileys.
For years the service has worked without hitches, drawing mainly on Twitter data, but as often happens things change; With the transformation of the platform into question into X and the introduction of new API restrictions in 2023, the system was in fact blocked, throwing all users who compulsively control the trends of emoji compulsively.
Yet Hemojipedia, who manages the project, has not given himself for won and thanks to an important technical review and a radical change of strategy, today Emojitracker returns to work, based on the use data provided by the users themselvesinstead of the bees of Elon Musk’s social network.
The new version of Emojitracker also has another ace in the sleeve, the complete support to Unicode 16.0, which brings the total of emojis traced to 3,790.
Of course, most people will focus on the usual dozens of more used emojis, the colored hearts, the smiles that laugh, the tears of emotion etc., but for the real enthusiasts it will still be possible to dig deep to find statistics also on the niche icons.
There is also a small gem for nostalgics, those who want it can also take a look at the old dataset of twitter archived, to compare the current rankings with those of the pre-X period.
One of the most interesting features of the new emojitacker is the Possibility to filter statistics by regionso as to find out which emojis are most popular in the different corners of the world; In addition, if you love small mysteries, Emojipedia has hinted that a secret functionality of the original tracker is still present in this new incarnation, even if it has not been revealed what it is.
Emojitracker is accessible from the official website And it does not require special recordings to consult the updated rankings, if you are passionate about emoji, a jump is certainly worth it, even if only to understand if your beloved face is still considered cool, or if instead the time has come to rejuvenate the repertoire.
