Open Source Emoji : Matt Mullenweg ![rw-book-cover](https://ma.tt/wp-json/social-image-generator/v1/image/44363) ## Metadata - Author: [[Matt Mullenweg]] - Full Title: Open Source Emoji : Matt Mullenweg - Category: #articles - Summary: I’m as likely to give Twitter a hard time as anyone, but today I want to tell you about something great they did: Twitter open sourced their emoji set for anyone to use. We’ve been working with them behind the scenes on this and launched the emoji for WP.com as well. - URL: http://ma.tt/2014/11/open-source-emoji/ I’m as likely to give Twitter a hard time as anyone, but today I want to tell you about something great they did: [Twitter open sourced their emoji set for anyone to use](https://blog.twitter.com/2014/open-sourcing-twitter-emoji-for-everyone). We’ve been working with them behind the scenes on this and [launched the emoji for WP.com as well](http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/emoji-everywhere/). Support will be coming to Jetpack soon. Andrew Nacin, lead developer of WordPress, just finished a talk at Loopconf, where he talked about a series of related WordPress security fixes that spanned two years, with the final fix included into WordPress core under the guise of Emoji support. Post Status has a good look at some of… I don't think "mega-blogging" is actually a thing, I just made it up to make the title sound more dramatic. But if mega-blogging were a thing, you would do it with WordPress. Micro-blogging is a thing, and a lot of people do it with Twitter. TechCrunch drops in this fray…, Open Source Emoji : Matt Mullenweg, Matt Mullenweg, 01gnmczxwz2j59y47aw0vt4qj2.