Instagram engineer delves into emoji madness<article>
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Emojis: Kids may love their simplicity, but programmers will loathe their complexities.</p><p>
Last month, the Instagram photo-sharing service
started recognizing emojis 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.</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>
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Instagram engineer delves into emoji madness
