Another minor update to the X / Twitter emoji set, once again updating the&nbsp;<a href="/pistol">🔫&nbsp;Water Pistol</a> emoji design.

The update began rolling out for users on 2024-08-14, at which time it was made&nbsp;available for X web client users and also on the X iOS app. It is expected to be available for Android users shortly.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/x-redesigns-water-pistol-emoji-back-to-a-firearm/">Learn more about the context for this design change.</a>

Twemoji 15.0.3

A minor update to the Twitter / X emoji set that changed the&nbsp;<a href="/pistol">🔫&nbsp;Water Pistol</a> emoji design to that of an actual firearm.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/x-redesigns-water-pistol-emoji-back-to-a-firearm/">Learn more about the context for this design change.</a>

Twemoji 15.0.2

Rolled out on 2023-07-23, this minor update to the Twemoji emoji set revised the designs of the <a href="https://emojipedia.org/face-with-medical-mask">😷 Face with Medical Mask</a>, <a href="https://emojipedia.org/pleading-face">🥺 Pleading Face</a>, and <a href="https://emojipedia.org/face-holding-back-tears">🥹 Face Holding Back Tears</a> emojis.

These three emoji designs had previously been updated within the Twitter web application&#39;s emoji picker tool, but not within tweets themselves prior to this update.

Twemoji 15.0.1

Rolling out globally from 2023-06-13, Twemoji 15.0 introduced support for September 2022&#39;s Emoji 15.0 recommendation to Twitter&#39;s classic block color emoji set.

Prior to their official rollout, these new emoji designs were initially visible within the Twitter web app&#39;s emoji picker tool.

Twemoji 15.0

Rolling out globally from 2022-03-08, Twemoji 14.0 introduced support for 2021&#39;s <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> recommendations. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-14-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 14.0

Twemoji 13.1.1 updated the designs of a handful of emojis, including <a href="/handshake/">🤝 Handshake</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/battery/">🔋 Battery</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/rainbow-flag/">🏳️&zwj;🌈 Rainbow Flag</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-13-1-1-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 13.1.1

Released on 2021-05-28,&nbsp;Twemoji 13.1&nbsp;added support for 217 new emojis from&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-13-1-emoji-changelog/">More about this update.</a>

Twemoji 13.1

Released on 2021-03-12,&nbsp;Twemoji 13.0.2&nbsp;updated the designs of 14 emojis, including the syringe emoji which had its contents and two blood drops removed.

Twemoji 13.0.2

Released on 2020-07-13, Twemoji 13.0.1 updated the designs of 28&nbsp;emojis, including changing both&nbsp;<a href="/calendar/">Calendar </a>and&nbsp;<a href="/tear-off-calendar/">Tear-Off Calendar&nbsp;</a>to display the date of <a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day</a> and to show all <a href="/person-kneeling/">Person Kneeling</a> emojis using&nbsp;a single knee.

Twemoji 13.0.1

Twemoji 13.0&nbsp;was the first Twemoji release to provide full support for <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>.&nbsp;Released on 2020-05-11, this update added 103&nbsp;new emojis. Prior to this update Twitter did support select Emoji 13.0 designs:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="/transgender-flag/">🏳️&zwj;⚧️ Transgender Flag</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/transgender-symbol/">⚧ Transgender Symbol</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/woman-in-tuxedo/">🤵&zwj;♀️ Woman in Tuxedo</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-13-0-emoji-changelog/">More on this update.&nbsp;</a>

Twemoji 13.0

A minor update to Twemoji that began rolling out to users on&nbsp;2020-04-17. A total of 36&nbsp;emoji designs were modified.

Twemoji 12.1.6

Twemoji 12.1.5 was the first Twemoji release to provide support for <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>. Released on 2020-01-27, this update added&nbsp;178 new emojis which primarily added new gender neutral sequences.&nbsp;This update followed <a href="/twitter/twemoji-12.1.4/changed/">Twemoji 12.1.4</a> which changed existing emojis to use a gender inclusive design where no gender was specified. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-12-1-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 12.1.5

An update to Twemoji began rolling out to users on 2019-11-06 and was<a href="https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/releases/tag/v12.1.4"> added to the open source repository</a> on 2019-11-13. This release&nbsp;gave a gender-inclusive appearance to most human emojis when a gender isn&#39;t specified.

Note: this did not add support for additional gender-neutral sequences approved in <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>&nbsp;- instead it changed the appearance of existing neutral emojis.

<a href="/discord/">Discord</a> updated its emoji support to Twemoji 12.1.4 in November 2019, in the first emoji update on the platform since 2016.

Twemoji 12.1.4

Twemoji 12.1.3

Released 2019-06-25, this update to Twemoji added support for the <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a> draft candidate&nbsp;<a href="/transgender-flag/">🏳️&zwj;⚧️&nbsp;Blue, Pink, and White Flag</a> (aka Transgender Flag).

Twemoji 12.1

An update to Twemoji which added support for all 230 new emojis in&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-12-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 12.0

A minor update to Twemoji which <a href="/twitter/twemoji-11.4/changed/">changed the appearance of three emojis only</a>.

Twemoji 11.4

A minor design up date to&nbsp;Twemoji, released January 24, 2019. Primarily focussed on people participating in&nbsp;activities&nbsp;(e.g, running, handball, dancing, etc), as well as some animals. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-11-3-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 11.3

A minor update to Twemoji which&nbsp;adjusted black shades&nbsp;for better contrast when shown on dark backgrounds such as those used in&nbsp;night mode.

Twemoji 11.2

A minor update which increased the saturation of the color&nbsp;red in a number of emojis&nbsp;and updated&nbsp;the <a href="/person-gesturing-no/">person gesturing no</a> variations&nbsp;to&nbsp;appear less like they are pushing against two walls.

Twemoji 11.1

Twemoji 11.0 was released on June 5&nbsp;2018 for&nbsp;Twitter.com, TweetDeck, and other Twemoji platforms. This release&nbsp;added&nbsp;support for 156 of the 157 new emojis in&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>. Twemoj&nbsp;supported&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="/pirate-flag/">Pirate Flag emoji</a> prior to this&nbsp;release.

Twemoji 11.0 is the release that follows <a href="/twitter/twemoji-2.7/">version 2.7 of Twemoji</a>, bringing the version numbers in line with the Unicode Emoji documentation version that it supports.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-11-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 11.0

Twemoji 2.7

A minor update to Twemoji, released on April 11, 2018. The most notable change in this release is the switchover from a realistic looking <a href="/pistol/">pistol</a>&nbsp;to a colored toy design. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-2-6-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 2.6

Twemoji 2.5 was&nbsp;a minor update released in February 2018 that added no new emojis, but updated the appearance of a number of designs. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-2-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 2.5

Twemoji 2.4 makes a number of changes to <a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a>&nbsp;additions to bring these more in line with other vendors.

Twemoji 2.4

Twemoji 2.3 added support for <a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a> and <a href="/twitter/twemoji-2.3/changed/">modified</a> a number of existing emojis.

Twemoji 2.3

Hand gestures in Twemoji 2.2.3 were changed to <a href="https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/releases/tag/v2.2.3">right-handed display</a>; and&nbsp;<a href="/menorah/" title="🕎 Menorah With Nine Branches">Menorah</a> fixed to display nine candles.

Twemoji 2.2.3

Twemoji&nbsp;2.2.2&nbsp;removed skin&nbsp;tone support from the following&nbsp;multi-person emojis (and their associated gendered ZWJ sequences)&nbsp;as per <a href="http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16332-remove-multi-emb.pdf">Unicode recommendation</a>.

<ul>
	<li><a href="/family/" title="👪 Family">👪&nbsp;Family</a></li>
	<li><a href="/woman-and-man-holding-hands/" title="👫 Man And Woman Holding Hands">👫&nbsp;Man And Woman Holding Hands</a></li>
	<li><a href="/men-holding-hands/" title="👬 Two Men Holding Hands">👬&nbsp;Two Men Holding Hands</a></li>
	<li><a href="/women-holding-hands/" title="👭 Two Women Holding Hands">👭&nbsp;Two Women Holding Hands</a></li>
	<li><a href="/people-with-bunny-ears/" title="👯 Woman With Bunny Ears">👯&nbsp;Woman With Bunny Ears</a></li>
	<li><a href="/people-wrestling/" title="🤼 Wrestlers">🤼&nbsp;Wrestlers</a></li>
	<li><a href="/people-wrestling/" title="🤝 Handshake">🤝 Handshake</a></li>
</ul>

Find out <a href="https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/releases/tag/v2.2.2">more about this update</a>.

Twemoji 2.2.2

A minor update which <a href="https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/commit/04377eae67db2e38a357e5f840fd3721fe28417e">changed</a>&nbsp;the direction of&nbsp;<a href="/pouting-cat/" title="😾 Pouting Cat Face">😾 Pouting Cat Face</a> to face forward, and increased the size of the star on the&nbsp;<a href="/flag-vietnam/">🇻🇳&nbsp;Flag for Vietnam</a>&nbsp;to &quot;better match the official flag&quot;.

Twemoji 2.2.1

Twemoji 2.2 was released on September 20, 2016 and includes gendered emojis, new&nbsp;emoji professions, skin tone modifiers for multiple-person emojis, as well as design changes to more closely match <a href="/apple/ios-10.0/">Apple&#39;s iOS 10</a> update.&nbsp;This update added support for <a href="/emoji-4.0/">Emoji 4.0</a> during the draft period. More <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-2-2-emoji-changelog/">about this update</a>.

Twemoji 2.2

Adds support for the <a href="/rainbow-flag/" title="🏳️‍🌈 Rainbow Flag">rainbow flag</a> and <a href="/pirate-flag/" title="🏴‍☠️ Pirate Flag">pirate flag</a>&nbsp;as&nbsp;well as visual updates to the <a href="/back-arrow/" title="🔙 Back With Leftwards Arrow Above">back</a>, <a href="/soon-arrow/" title="🔜 Soon With Rightwards Arrow Above">soon</a>, <a href="/top-arrow/" title="🔝 Top With Upwards Arrow Above">top</a>, <a href="/end-arrow/" title="🔚 End With Leftwards Arrow Above">end</a>, and <a href="/on-arrow/" title="🔛 On With Exclamation Mark With Left Right Arrow Above">on</a>&nbsp;emojis.

Twemoji 2.1.2

The first release of Twemoji to support emoji characters from <a href="/unicode-9.0/">Unicode 9.0</a>. Also includes minor changes to four emojis. <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-2-1-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 2.1

Twemoji 2.0 was released on&nbsp;December 9, 2015 and included skin tone modifiers, as well as Unicode 7.0 and 8.0 emoji support. See all&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-2-0-emoji-changelog/">changes in this update</a>.

Twemoji 2.0

Twemoji 1.0 was the first release of Twitter&rsquo;s open source emoji set.

Twemoji 1.0

A yellow face with simple, open eyes and puckered lips giving a kiss. Commonly conveys sentiments of love and affection.

Like <a href="/kissing-face-with-smiling-eyes/" title="😙 Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes">😙 Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes</a>, this emoji is sometimes taken to represent whistling, especially when paired with a <a href="/musical-note/">musical note</a>. May convey such feelings as surprise, admiration, contempt, or feigned innocence, as a person casually whistling after wrongdoing saying,&nbsp;Nothing to look at here.

Similar to <a href="/kissing-face-with-smiling-eyes/" title="😙 Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes">😙 Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes</a> and <a href="/kissing-face-with-closed-eyes/">😚&nbsp;Kissing Face With Closed Eyes</a> but with less intimate eyes.

😗 Kissing Face on undefined Twemoji 11.2

😗 Kissing Face on undefined Twemoji 11.2

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