Twitter's
#Rio2016 emojis just dropped for all
your patriotic needs
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.
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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 also has its own hashtag, #ROT and emoji, an image of the world held in two hands.
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