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08-02-2016, 05:31 PM
Twitter's #Rio2016 emojis just dropped for all your patriotic needs
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Is an event truly an event without purpose-made emoji? Apparently **t.
An increasingly-sports focused Twitter have an**unced plans to take on the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro. With literally hundreds and hundreds of emoji.
SEE ALSO: Twitter took us from Stars Hollow to outer space this week (http://mashable.com/2016/07/30/twitter-roundup-july-29/)
During the Games, tweeting one of 207 country initials — #GRE for Greece or #THA for Thailand, for example — will trigger a miniature flag. Similarly, #Olympics comes with a gold wreath, #OpeningCeremony with fireworks, and #Gold, #Silver and #Bronze get mini medallions.
The Refugee Olympic Team (http://mashable.com/2016/06/06/olympic-refugee-team/) also has its own hashtag, #ROT and emoji, an image of the world held in two hands. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/02/rio-olympics-twitter-emoji/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Rio Olympics (http://mashable.com/category/rio-olympics/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Australia (http://mashable.com/category/australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Social Media (http://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/gwEeIJuP9bY
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Is an event truly an event without purpose-made emoji? Apparently **t.
An increasingly-sports focused Twitter have an**unced plans to take on the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro. With literally hundreds and hundreds of emoji.
SEE ALSO: Twitter took us from Stars Hollow to outer space this week (http://mashable.com/2016/07/30/twitter-roundup-july-29/)
During the Games, tweeting one of 207 country initials — #GRE for Greece or #THA for Thailand, for example — will trigger a miniature flag. Similarly, #Olympics comes with a gold wreath, #OpeningCeremony with fireworks, and #Gold, #Silver and #Bronze get mini medallions.
The Refugee Olympic Team (http://mashable.com/2016/06/06/olympic-refugee-team/) also has its own hashtag, #ROT and emoji, an image of the world held in two hands. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/02/rio-olympics-twitter-emoji/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Rio Olympics (http://mashable.com/category/rio-olympics/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Australia (http://mashable.com/category/australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Social Media (http://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/gwEeIJuP9bY