Emojli
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Emojli is a discontinued social media application for iOS and Android, created by YouTuber and web developer Tom Scott, and YouTuber and broadcast engineer Matt Gray. While it was active, its principal feature was restricting usernames and messages to only contain emoji. When the app launched on 29 August 2014, 70,000 unique emoji-only usernames were reserved.
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- Instance of
- mobile app
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Official website
- emoj.li
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- operating system
- Android
- distributed by
- Google Play
- input device
- touchscreen
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Emojli is a discontinued social media application for iOS and Android, created by YouTuber and web developer Tom Scott, and YouTuber and broadcast engineer Matt Gray. While it was active, its principal feature was restricting usernames and messages to only contain emoji. When the app launched on 29 August 2014, 70,000 unique emoji-only usernames were reserved.
== History == Tom Scott and Matt Gray were inspired to create the app after seeing the success of Yo and the release of new emoji characters by the Unicode Consortium. During a talk at Electromagnetic Field Festival, the developers commented that the app originated largely as a joke, but that by the time of launch 70,000 unique usernames had been reserved. The app was launched on 29 August 2014. After press coverage the developers began receiving offers for venture capital.
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