Emoji facts

Emoji is now the fastest growing language in the UK

Did you know that the first emoji was created in 1999 by a team working on Japanese mobile phone provider i-mode’s messaging features.

There are 722 different emoji characters currently available in the standard Unicode set shared by most platforms.

There is a governing body for emoji called the Unicode Consortium that includes Apple, Google, Adobe, IBM, Microsoft and Yahoo.

According to eMarketer data and research by Swyft Media in January 2015, there are two billion smartphone users worldwide with 41.5 billion messages and 6 billion emoticons sent daily.