Finally, after months of waiting, Twitter has finally rolled out emoji reactions. With this feature, you can add a reaction to direct messages using the normal selection of your emoji similar to Facebook’s reactions. When you tap on a reaction emoji, all participants in the direct message will receive a notification.
How to Use Twitter’s Emoji Reactions
When you hover over a message and click the heart and plus icon, a reaction will be added. Also when you double-tap on a message, reaction emojis will pop-up and you can pick one.
The preset emojis include a laughing face, sad face, thumbs up, and heart.
It is also possible to undo a reaction at any time and it will be removed for all participants.
Clicking or tapping on the reaction emoji will let you view who reacted to the message.
It’s worth noting you can even react to years-old messages.
Apple’s iMessage and Instagram’s DMs have this feature. However, you can only like a message on Instagram. Both reactions make it easier to acknowledge another message without needing to reply.
These reactions come in handy if you don’t feel like having a conversation or don’t know how to end one.
The reactions look and feel most like Fb’s that you built. Path’s were for posts. iMessage are the most similar, but you launched them for feed posts 6 months before they came to iMessage, so I’m giving you the win here
— Josh Constine (@JoshConstine) January 23, 2020
This feature already has tweeps excited
is this a challenge to heart every single dog pic we receive
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) January 22, 2020
My usage of Twitter DM will go up roughly 💯 ❌ https://t.co/VBfa75GYyM
— M.G. Siegler (@mgsiegler) January 23, 2020
I just saw this and thought I was losing my mind.
Fire. Everything is fire. Fire always and forever. https://t.co/fu8CISRT2V
— Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) January 22, 2020
I completely agree
The ability for Twitter to ship features no one asked for is quite remarkable https://t.co/o8bJtN6wFU
— Tom Critchlow (@tomcritchlow) January 23, 2020
Men who like to give one word replies are very excited by this development. https://t.co/jwUiK59phg
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 23, 2020
my DM inbox still won't show all the folks i've messaged with but sure why not https://t.co/BkQiGxFfNP
— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) January 22, 2020
Just 3 years after Fb launched this. Excited for Twitter to get serious about bullying in 2023 https://t.co/gWRtAnRFKy
— Josh Constine (@JoshConstine) January 23, 2020
Reaction emojis are rolling out to users on Android, iOS and the web.
For those still using an older version of Twitter(please update), they’ll see reactions displayed as text.
