How to Use Emoji Reactions in Twitter Posts
Reacting to text messages – a practice that iPhone and iPad owners should be familiar with when you long press on a message to add a little heart or thumb up / thumb down to something – are simple ways to express reactions unnecessarily. coming up with something interesting to say. I find they save a ton of time on my iPhone, and I’m glad to see them now rolling out onto the big social buffet board, which is also Twitter.
Yes, you can now send a quick , emoji- like response to all meaningful Twitter comments, but only if they’ve contacted you via a direct message. Unfortunately, you can’t respond to any tweets on the service – just messages – but this feature should work on whatever platform you use for Twitter, be it Android, iOS, or the web.
To get started, start a live conversation, hover over any comment in the thread, and click the new icon that looks like a heart with a plus. (If you’re on a mobile phone, double-tap the message instead.)
When you do, you will see a popup that looks like this:
Select the emoji you want and let it copy, which adds a little twist to the message:
Will Twitter ever introduce this feature into your main Twitter timeline? I wouldn’t hold my breath, especially since they seem to be completely downplaying the number of likes and retweets . Just imagine a scandal if the new “rationing” throws all kinds of negative reviews (or flames) on a person’s meaningless posts.
Seriously though, I think Twitter is likely to stick with simple positive likes in your main Twitter timeline for now, but at least you can express yourself a little more when someone enters your DMs. If someone is using a version of Twitter that is too old to see these reactions, they will instead receive “reactions displayed as text messages,” Twitter notes. (Then they too will learn the horror of being an Android user trapped in a group chat with Apple fans.)