Years after Twitter replaced the pistol emoji with a green-and-orange water gun, X has decided to change it back to a regular handgun. An X employee announced the change in a post last week.
The company hasn’t explained the change, but it feels on-brand for Elon Musk’s social network. Twitter originally switched its emoji to display a water gun in 2018, following others like Google and Facebook. (Apple made the switch in 2016; Microsoft was a brief hold-out.)
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on x dot com (the website), the gun emoji was returned back into its rightful form: an m1911https://t.co/FlXJtOpU3H pic.twitter.com/cqd7KHcxUJ
— kache (@yacineMTB) July 18, 2024
Eventually, the Unicode Consortium, which decides which emoji get…
