Twitter has made a subtle, but not insignificant change to the way it counts emoji in its 280-character limit. Moving forward, all of its natively supported emoji will count as two characters.

Now, irrespective of which modified emoji you use, it will be counted equally towards Twitter's total character limit of 280. Previously, Twitter would count modified emoji, based on gender and skin ...

To cut down on the confusion regarding character counts on its platform, microblogging site Twitter has announced that all emojis on the platform would now amount to equal word count. Due to ...