In July 2021, 20.69 percent of monitored tweets contained at least one emoji, up from 20.15 percent in July of the previous year. Between 2016 and 2021, emoji usage on the micro-blogging platform increased by over 42 percent. Overall, 2018 to 2019 saw the largest year-on-year increase in emoji usage on Twitter.
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