5. EMOJIS BY THE
NUMBERS
• 176: Original assortment of emoji, including a heart, an
umbrella, and a full set of zodiac symbols
• 3,019: Emoji in the Unicode Standard as of March 2019
• 7%: Share of people who use the 🍑 emoji as a fruit
• 5 billion: Emoji sent daily on Facebook Messenger
• 346: People and smiley-face emoji
• 7%: Rotten Tomatoes rating on The Emoji Movie
• 92%: Share of all people online who use emoji
• >50%: Share of Instagram posts that contain emoji
• 17: Default date on the emoji calendar 📆
• 1, 2, 3: Rank of 😂, ❤️, and 😍 as most used emoji in
2018
12. WHY DO WE USE
EMOJIS?
Ryan Kelly, a computer scientist at the
University of Bath, told Wired that
emoji help create an “ambient
presence” when words aren’t
appropriate. He found that when
messengers end their conversation,
they often trade a few emoji as a
“nonverbal denouement.”