#Breaking: Twitter Adds Unserious Emoji to Serious Hashtag
The app formerly known as Twitter thought it was doing something fun, something for the Summer Olympics beginning on July 21, when it added a dancer emoji at the tail end of “#Breaking” to celebrate the 2024 games’ brand-new sport. Instead, its pictogram of a dancer performing a windmill move appears next to sobering news like “#Breaking[*insert dancing emoji*]: Worldwide outage is affecting airlines, banks, media, and offices from U.S. to Australia,” or “#Breaking[*insert dancing emoji*: Massive protest in #Bannu, asking for peace.” Search the hashtag, and find graphic images of victims in war-torn Gaza, riots in London, and missile attacks in Crimea, all led by a tiny drawing of a text-size Olympian with his legs in the air. Twitter always felt like laughing at a funeral anyway.
Twitter adding a breakdancing person next to #breaking is going to make news posts way more fun pic.twitter.com/bfF3EMRIi4
— John Delmenico (@thebigjohnnyd) July 19, 2024
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