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by LeoPanthera 4303 days ago
Why emoji and not arbitrary icons?
2 comments

If they were using their own icon set I'd probably be asking the same question in reverse.

Emojis are becoming a very well known icon set among loads of different people, and I think it's smart when people capitalise on that to enable new things.

People love emoji! Also - we can send emoji in push notifications.