The crying emoji (😭) is officially the most used emoji on Twitter around the world

The crying emoji (😭) is officially the most used emoji on Twitter around the world.

The laughing crying emoji might be coming back into vogue.

According to an Emojipedia analysis of over 2.16 billion tweets(opens in a new tab), the face with tears of joy emoji 😂 has returned to its spot as Twitter’s number one emoji by the slimmest of margins, just barely surpassing the loudly crying face 😭.

This doesn’t necessarily mean that the face with tears of joy emoji is cool again, though. The change is largely due to the loudly crying face experiencing a steep drop in popularity in January, from 1.93 billion uses in December to 1.78 billion uses in the month. Thats a total decrease of about 150 million uses. The face with tears of joy emoji only increased 20 million uses from December to January.

The emoji been going through different phases online over the past few years, being labeled as “cringe” and a communication tool used predominately by Millennials. It was released with the first-ever set of emoji back in 2011, and was the most popular emoji from 2019 to 2021. It’s no wonder that it had an absolute chokehold on Millennials.

The company says that as part of #WorldEmojiDay in 2020, 695K conversations from 146K unique authors in India were recorded, with a 93% positive/neutral sentiment. Here are the most popular Emojis on Twitter between January 01 – June 30, 2021:

Most used emojis on Twitter in India

😂 (Tears of joy emoji)

🙏 (Praying emoji)

😭 (Crying emoji)

👍 (Thumbs up emoji)

🤣 (ROFL emoji)

😍 (Heart eyes emoji)

🥺 (Pleading face emoji)

😊 (Smile emoji)

🔥 (Fire emoji)

😁 (Grinning face with smiling eyes emoji)