Using the wrong emoji at work can shift the meaning of your message. Staying curious about tone and generational preferences ...

The clapping hands emoji: When used repetitively in a row, it signifies applause, but as any social media user by now understands, that is not the emoji's primary placement in the world of Twitter.

In the second experiment, which involved 178 participants, these emoji were replaced with GIFs - either a negative non-face GIF, a positive non-face GIF, a negative face GIF, or a positive face GIF.

If you need to clap back at someone—metaphorically clapping your hands as you speak, not metaphorically shooting at them—you can just type your rant into Clap Back.It’ll add the clap emoji ...

Thumbs up emoji! All of the thumbs up emojis! (And perhaps a clapping emoji, too.) Apple has just pushed out its much-anticipated suite of racially diverse emojis with its new iOS 8.3.