The most used emoji in the world
What is your favourite emoji to use?
Once used to emphasise what a person wants to say has now become a universal language on its own.
Emojis have allowed people to convey a wide range of emotions, reactions, and sentiments without saying a single word.
Recently, the number of emojis people can use has increased drastically with almost any emoji you can think of being available.
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According to Crossword Solver, over 3,000 emojis are currently in use, but not all are used equally often.
Using the Twitter API, Crossword Solver used nine-million geotagged Tweets and used this data to compile the list of the most used emojis worldwide.
Based on their findings, the 'Face with tears of joy' emoji - 😂 - is the most commonly used emoji in 75 countries.
This emoji was also the first emoji to be named Oxford's Word of the Year.
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According to the Unicode Consortium, the 'Face with tears of joy' accounted for more than 5% of all emojis used in 2021.
South Africa was no different, as this emoji is also the most used in the country.
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