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Coca-Cola is the first company to pay Twitter for custom emoji
Hashtag-activated emoji have been invading our Twitter streams for some time now, but would you believe me if I told you that those Star Wars, Dominos and sport-focused icons didn't make Twitter a dime? Apparently, they didn't, but that's about to change. The company testing out custom "hashflags" as paid advertising -- starting with Coca-Cola's #shareacoke campaign.
Premier League club badges come to Twitter ahead of new season
Twitter's hashflags have encouraged colourful conversations around the general election and Wimbledon already this year, and right on time, the social network has issued a new set for fans of the UK's most popular spectator sport. Launched ahead of the start of the Premier League footy season tomorrow, every squad now has its own hashflag that'll add the team's badge to tweets whenever used. So, whether you're cheering on your own 11 or calling out rivals for their highly developed diving skills, you've now got emoji to drive the point home. Let's try and keep the discussions civil though, yeah? After all, it's only a game.
Election 'hashflags' are about to invade your Twitter feed
If you hadn't noticed, the upcoming general election is kind of a hot topic in the UK right now, but discussion and debates don't just play out on Question Time. Social media is the perfect place to broadcast your political ramblings, and because you can never have enough emoji, Twitter has today launched a set of "hashflags" to spice up election-centric tweets. In the same way national flags popped up alongside country-code hashtags during the most recent footy World Cup, most political parties now have little icons associated with their preferred hashtags (though they're not showing up in Twitter's Android app currently). Like most things political, you can spin it one of two ways. Either they'll bring a welcome a dash of iconography to tweets, or make your feed a distracting, emoji-ridden nightmare.
