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Re:Fastly Outage by mbreese on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @07:14AM (#27433564)
Same reason why Gmail uses their own emojis rather than the system ones — (as said above) branding. When you send a tweet, Twitter wants it to look identical across all devices. The classic native UI vs cross-platform UI debate in a nutshell.
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Re:Fastly Outage by gspr on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @07:43AM (#27433820)
Cool, so instead of actually serving text, they could also just serve up little SVGs for each letter. Because god forbid the recipient chooses a different font than Gmail!
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Re:Fastly Outage by numpad0 on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @08:01AM (#27433963)
Which is why Slack style :tofu_on_fire: emoji notation is genius
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Re:Fastly Outage by GranPC on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @08:19AM (#27434133)
You're pretty much defining webfonts!
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Re:Fastly Outage by gspr on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @08:24AM (#27434188)
Indeed. Another abomination.
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Re:Fastly Outage by dolmen on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:54AM (#27445733)
That's not a minor UI issue.

Twitter is a media between people. Removing emoji representation differences on user devices is a way to hopefully reduce misunderstandings between users.

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