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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/Randomno on 2023-08-21 15:18:02+00:00.

Twitter has an open source emoji library called Twemoji. Since the Twitter takeover, anyone working on it has been laid off, so the future of it seems uncertain.

Notably, Discord uses Twemoji. They recently switched to this fork made by one of the former Twitter employees. It’s been several months now though and they haven’t updated to Unicode 15.0.

Twitter updated their emoji for 15.0 in June, which were designed by the team before the layoffs, but these haven’t been released under an open license. The former employees are trying to work with one of their old coworkers to get it released on the open source project, but there’s no ETA.

If this takes too long then presumably companies using Twemoji are going to find an alternative, perhaps making their own in-house. I hope there’s an open source future for Twemoji.