people hugging on Twitter/X
This is how the people hugging emoji 🫂 looks on Twitter (X) Twemoji. Every platform designs emojis differently — see the comparison below.
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🐦 Twitter/X Design Style
Twemoji features a clean, flat 2D design with consistent line weights and bright, saturated colors. As an open-source project (CC-BY 4.0), Twemoji is used by many platforms beyond Twitter, including Discord. The designs prioritize clarity and cross-platform consistency.
🫂 About people hugging on Twitter/X
When you see the people hugging emoji on Twitter/X, you get a detailed and expressive rendition that aligns with the platform's people & body design philosophy. This interpretation has been available and evolving since 2014.
Compared to other platforms, Twitter/X's version of the people hugging emoji leans more detailed and expressive, which can subtly change how recipients perceive the tone of a message containing this people & body emoji.
ℹ️ Platform Details
- Platform
- Twitter (X) Twemoji
- Emoji Support Since
- 2014
- Website
- x.com
💡 Twitter/X People & Body Design Insight
Twemoji people figures use a simplified but expressive design language with round heads, minimal facial features, and clothes rendered in flat, distinct colors. The simplicity ensures human emojis are recognizable even in small reply threads.
Twitter's alt text feature automatically generates descriptions for people emojis in tweets, making human emoji accessible to screen reader users browsing the platform.
Usage Tip
Profile display names on Twitter support people emojis, and many users add profession-related person emojis next to their name to signal their identity — the technologist emoji is particularly popular among developers on the platform.
Cross-Platform Note
Twemoji's simplified people look notably different from Apple's detailed figures, which is apparent when tweets containing people emojis are screenshotted from the web versus the iOS app.
Fun Fact
Twitter was the first social platform to create and maintain its own complete emoji font, launching Twemoji in 2014 to ensure every user saw identical emojis regardless of their device or operating system.