If you think your emoji game is strong, then it’s time to get an official verdict on your emoticon literacy. With a new Twitter tool called EmojiLife, created by business intelligence analyst Jeff Needles, users can finally get their “emoji ranking.”
How it works is simple: users connect their Twitter account to the tool and EmojiLife scans your Twitter timeline to provide you with an emoji ranking, your most frequently used emoji, a timeline of your emoji usage, and your most engaging emoji.
The ranking offers five categories: Emoji Master, Emoji Fluent, Emoji Literate, Emoji Novice, Emoji Newb. The tool will also provide statistics on which emoji people like the most and which ones make people retweet more frequently.
“My interest in emoji analytics (shortened to emojilytics by Ryan Hoover) began with my work at Meerkat,” wrote Needles on Medium. “During a stream, a comment consisting of a single emoji causes your avatar to flip. Your image becomes this emoji. In a sense, for a quick second, you become an emoji. It is meant to represent your feelings. It conveys to a broadcaster more info than any text could, in an elegant but fun way.”
In the past, FiveThirtyEight compiled a list of the most popular emojis on Twitter. The team found that the "hearts" emoji was used in 342,475,410 tweets, followed by the "joy" emoji (278,834,358) and "unamused" emoji (135,699,152). All this data was attainable courtesy of Matthew Rothenberg, who created code to calculate emoji usage in real-time in 2013.
Users interested in the most popular emoji on Twitter at this very moment can view the data via EmojiTracker.
