Emojipedia

Emojipedia

A screenshot illustrating the Emojipedia's listing for the "🐦" emoji.
Available in English
Editor Jeremy Burge
Website emojipedia.org
Alexa rank Increase 3,569 (November 2016)[1]
Launched 2013 (2013)

Emojipedia is an emoji reference website[2] created by "the world’s pre-eminent emoji specialist" Jeremy Burge[3] in 2013.[4] Rising to prominence with the release of Unicode 7 emoji characters in 2014, The Register reported the "online encyclopedia of emojis has been chucked offline after vast numbers of people visited the site"[5] in relation to the downtime experienced by the site at the time.

The Emojipedia website documents changes[6] to emoji symbols and their meanings[7] in the Unicode Standard. The website receives over 140 million pageviews per year[8] and has been called "the world’s number one resource on emoji".[9]

World Emoji Day

World Emoji Day is a social media campaign created by Emojipedia in 2014[10] which is held on July 17 each year.[11] According to the New York Times the choice of July 17 was "based on the way the calendar emoji is shown on iPhones”.[12]

Emojipedia used the second annual World Emoji Day to release EmojiVote as "an experiment in Emoji democracy" on July 17, 2015.[13]

Adopt an Emoji

Emojipedia launched "Adopt an Emoji" in September 2015 as "an attempt to make the site free of display ads" according to Wired.[14] This preceded a similar program by the Unicode Consortium in December 2015.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "emojipedia.org Site Overview". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2016-11-10.
  2. ↑ Yen, Yap (29 June 2015). "The Definitive Guide To All Things Emoji". Design Taxi. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  3. ↑ Griffin, Andrew (17 July 2016). "Meet the man whose life work is cataloguing emoji". The Independant. Retrieved 10 Oct 2016.
  4. ↑ Van Luling, Todd (18 November 2014). "Why We Never Got Those 250 New Emoji We Were Promised". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  5. ↑ Hamill, Jasper (17 June 2014). "Unicode ideogram list-site Emojipedia goes titsup". The Register. London. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  6. ↑ Seward, Zachary (4 May 2015). "Microsoft is the only tech company daring enough to support the middle finger emoji". Quartz. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
  7. ↑ Davis, Mark (3 February 2015). "More Unicode Emoji Glyph changes" (PDF). Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  8. ↑ Price, Rob (17 Jan 2016). "Interview with Jeremy Burge, founder of Emojipedia". Business Insider. Retrieved 29 Jan 2016.
  9. ↑ Shackleton, Emily (15 Jan 2016). "8 commonly confused emoji and what they really mean". Metro (British newspaper). Retrieved 15 Apr 2016.
  10. ↑ O'Neill Deighan, Emma (17 July 2015). "It's World Emoji Day, how will you celebrate?". Belfast Live. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  11. ↑ Schupak, Amanda (17 July 2015). "Could you use these new emoji in a sentence?". CBS News. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  12. ↑ Varn, Kathryn (17 July 2015). "Letting Our Emojis Get in the Way". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  13. ↑ Varn, Kathryn (17 July 2015). "Letting Our Emojis Get in the Way". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  14. ↑ Gottsegen, Gordon (4 Sep 2015). "Adopting Emoji Is Like Adopting Internet Highways". Wired (magazine).
  15. ↑ McHugh, Molly (16 Dec 2015). "Why Unicode Is Putting Its Emoji Up For Adoption". Wired (magazine).

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