The following post, by Instagram engineering team, might be interesting
for the people in this list who are interested in the emoji use in the
wild. It’s an attempt to algorithmically define teh meaning of emojis as
they are used on instagram .
http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/117889701472/emojineering-part-1-machine-learning-for-emoji
I find the synonymity of 👍 with #fingerscrossed quite funny but
understandable.
Frédéric
PS: Found via “All Things Linguistic” aka αθλ
http://allthingslinguistic.com/post/124609017512/emojineering-part-1-machine-learning-for-emoji
. By the way, this blog post contains the first emojis in italics I ever
saw.
