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Title: Instagram engineer delves into emoji madness Post by: HCK on May 08, 2015, 03:00:12 am Instagram engineer delves into emoji madness
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Emojis: Kids may love their simplicity, but programmers will loathe their complexities.</p><p> Last month, the Instagram photo-sharing service started recognizing emojis (http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/117889701472/emojineering-part-1-machine-learning-for-emoji) in its hashtag searches, making the company the first major social networking service to offer this capability. A user could affix a sprightly emoji to a photo hashtag so the snap could be found by other users searching for that emoji. The Internet rejoiced (http://time.com/3837121/emojis-hastag-instagram-new-filters/).</p><p> Now, one of the Instagram engineers responsible for this technical feat has shared the company’s approach in a blog item posted Wednesday that should be perused by any developer looking to outfit a social Internet service or consumer app with similar emoji goodness. Turns out that supporting the little digital icons is no easy task.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2919792/instagram-engineer-delves-into-emoji-madness.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Instagram engineer delves into emoji madness (http://www.macworld.com/article/2919792/instagram-engineer-delves-into-emoji-madness.html#tk.rss_all) |