Twitter Removes Emojis from Bitcoin and MAGA Hashtags

Todaysgist.com, Jakarta – Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter) removed the Bitcoin emoji from the hashtag “#Bitcoin,” causing a stir in the crypto community. Logos or emojis for several tokens first appeared on X in 2020.

The crypto community on X began commenting Friday morning that they could no longer see the emoji when posting “#bitcoin” on X. Some later noticed that the hashtags for #bnbchain and #cryptocom, which also feature emojis, no longer show the brand image.

Quoting Coindesk, Sunday (28/7/2024), the emoji for #MAGA which previously featured Republican candidate Donald Trump was also removed ahead of his scheduled appearance at the ongoing Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville.

The Bitcoin emoji was first introduced in 2020 by Jack Dorsey at the time it was still called Twitter. Dorsey tried to popularize the bitcoin symbol into Unicode, a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium that is designed to support the use of text in all writing systems in the world that can be digitized.

X, then known as Twitter, reportedly charged companies up to $1 million to add emojis or branded symbols after certain hashtags to help differentiate their brands from competitors and generate buzz among consumers.

Unlike X’s choice, Nexo appears to be in favor of accepting the Bitcoin emoji worldwide. Today, July 26, the instant crypto lending platform told X that it has reached out to the Unicode Consortium with a proposal to add the Bitcoin emoji to digital keyboards worldwide. The deadline for this year’s ruling is November 30.

The worldwide software internationalization standard is created, maintained, and promoted by the Unicode Consortium. Industry leaders such as Bitget, Polygon, Chainalysis, OKEx, and more have supported Nexo’s Bitcoin emoji petition.

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