If you find Facebook overwhelming and Twitter just too much, a new social network aims to make communication even simpler.
Emojili, set to launch later this year, will only allow its users to send emoji to each other.
Even usernames on the system will be emoji – and over 10,000 people have already signed up.
Even usernames on the system will be emoji – and over 10,000 people have already signed up.
‘We’ve just passed 10,000 usernames reserved, the firm said on its Twitter feed.
‘Fortunately there are more than 250,000 possible two-emoji combos, so most are still available!’
The site was set up by Londoners Matt Gray and Tom Scott, who say they were inspired by Yo, which allows users to simply send the word Yo.
‘The two of us had the idea at about the same time — we weren’t sold on it until we realized that usernames should be emoji too,’ said Gray.
‘At that point, we burst out laughing and realized we had to build it.’
However, the pair have so far refused to say exactly how the app will work.Earlier this year it was revealed Apple is working to expand the diversity of the hugely popular emoji characters for the iPhone.
Following complaints that the current character set was not diverse enough, the firm said it was working with the standards body that controls them.
Because Emoji have to be displayed on different devices, they are tightly controlled by the Unicode Consortium.
At present the list of characters contains dozens of faces of people that appear to be white.
However, only two of the symbols seem to be Asian and none are black.
However, only two of the symbols seem to be Asian and none are black.
Since 2010 a basic list has been developed and maintained by the Unicode Consortium – a Silicon Valley-based non-profit organisation made up of major computer firms, software producers, user groups and others.
It does this to ensure that different devices and mobile carriers can share a basic set.
The latest disclosure came after Apple boss Tim Cook was emailed asking if the firm was going to address the issue.
The diversity of emoji was also questioned in a petition posted to DoSomething.org calling on Apple to increase the ethnic diversity found within its emoji keyboard.
‘Of the more than 800 Emojis, the only two resembling people of color are a guy who looks vaguely Asian and another in a turban,’ it says.
‘There’s a white boy, girl, man, woman, elderly man, elderly woman, blonde boy, blonde girl and, we’re pretty sure, Princess Peach.’
