Twitter is rolling out the latest updates to its emoji and one change is quite notable: its pistol icon is now that of a water gun, as Emojipedia noticed.
In 2016, Apple was the first vendor to make this change, which was widely interpreted as a political statement against gun violence. In the last several months, WhatsApp and Samsung have followed suit, so Twitter is making the change to be consistent with these vendors, a spokesperson tells Axios.
Consistency is also why others, like Google’s Android, chose to stick with their pistol-looking icon despite Apple’s move at the time. (While the Unicode Consortium manages emoji, vendors are free to design their own as long as they match each icon’s criteria.) – READ MORE
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