Emojipedia

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Emojipedia
? Emojipedia - ? Home of Emoji Meanings ????
Online reference work on emojis
languages English
operator Emojipedia Pty Ltd
editorial staff Jeremy Burge
Registration No
Annual income six digits (US dollars)
On-line 2013 (currently active)
http://emojipedia.org/

The Emojipedia is an English-language online reference guide for emoji . It was founded on July 14, 2013 by Australian emoji expert Jeremy Burge and is the leading emojis resource on the Internet.

Emojipedia lists all emojis in the Unicode standard with names, meanings and images of the implementations of various operating systems and programs . Changes in the standard or implementations are also documented in an attached blog .

The content of the Emojipedia is created and maintained by Burge full-time. The ad-supported website received 140 million hits in 2015 and generated six-figure ( US $ ) sales. For World Emoji Day 2015, the site was viewed five million times.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Rob Price: This 31-year-old Australian accidentally built a huge empire by cataloging all the world's emojis. In: Business Insider UK . January 17, 2016, accessed March 27, 2017 .
  2. a b Andrew Griffin: World Emoji Day: Meet the man whose life work is cataloging emoji. In: The Independent . July 17, 2016, accessed March 27, 2017 .
  3. Todd Van Luling: Why We Never Got Those 250 New Emoji We Were Promised. In: Huffington Post . November 18, 2014, accessed March 27, 2017 .
  4. ^ Zachary M. Seward: Microsoft is the only tech company daring enough to support the middle finger emoji. In: Quartz . May 4, 2015, accessed March 27, 2017 .
  5. Emojipedia blog. Retrieved March 27, 2017 (English).