Emojis’ So does the rest of the world

ANN ARBOR?People worldwide love , except the French, who prefer , according to a new study of global emoji usage. Researchers at the University of Michigan and Peking University analyzed 427 million messages from nearly 4 million smartphone users in 212 countries and regions to see if emoji use was universal or differed based on user location and culture. They used a popular input method app'Kika Emoji Keyboard'made available in 60 languages. The team's results are believed to be the first large-scale analysis of emoji usage. "Emojis are everywhere. They are becoming the ubiquitous language that bridges everyone across different cultures," said Wei Ai, a doctoral student at the U-M School of Information and one of the lead authors of this study. Ai and colleagues found that is the most popular emoji, comprising 15.4 percent of the total symbols in the study.
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