When Paul Pierce tweeted a screenshot of the rocket emoji during The Great NBA Twitter Emoji War over DeAndre Jordan's fate, many assumed the 37-year-old was simply out of touch with modern times.

It is rolling out “Reactions,” a new set of six emoji that will sit alongside the original thumbs-up to let users quickly respond with love, laughter, happiness, shock, sadness and anger.

— Kathleen Chaykowski (@Kchaykowski) February 24, 2016 After more than a year of working to build alternatives to its trademark "like" button, Facebook's has globally launched emoji "Reactions." ...

Facebook tests emoji replacement for the Like button, with Love, Wow and Sad (but still no Dislike) by James Risley on October 8, 2015 at 10:07 am October 8, 2015 at 10:07 am.

Google’s blob emojis first burst onto the scene way back in 2013 with the release of Android 4.4. They’ve been ubiquitous ever since 2014 when, as Emojipedia’s Jeremy Burge wrote last ...

The now-defunct Emoji Tracker. emojitracker.com. As it turns out, there's a pretty strange history behind the icon involving ska music, Peter Tosh and the guy who created Comic Sans.