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 differences in the character counts amongst emojis and written text, many emojis including the ones with gender and skin tone variations have been counted as more characters, creating confusion. "In support of recent updates to Unicode, Twitter will now count all emojis equally, including those with gender and skin tone modifiers," the company announced via a blog-post late on Thursday.

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 differences in the character counts amongst emojis and written text, many emojis including the ones with gender and skin tone variations have been counted as more characters, creating confusion. "In support of recent updates to Unicode, Twitter will now count all emojis equally, including those with gender and skin tone modifiers," the company announced via a blog-post late on Thursday.