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#WorldEmojiDay, What We Need to Know

#WorldEmojiDay, what we need to know the celebration is on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook using the hashtag #WorldEmojiDay. July 17 is famously displayed on the iOS Calendar Emoji, which makes it perfect date for World Emoji Day. The World Emoji Day has an anthem and it's really catchy Twitter has rolled out support for 72 new emojis launched by Unicode Consortium in June this year. The new emojis unveiled under version 9.0 of the Unicode Standard include selfie, facepalm, shrug and pregnant woman.

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