--- ---  # What World Emoji Day Revealed About America by [Rosalie Chan](https://time.com/author/rosalie-chan/) ## Rosalie Chan Jul 18, 2016 7:29 PM UTC  Getty Images by [Rosalie Chan](https://time.com/author/rosalie-chan/) ## Rosalie Chan Jul 18, 2016 7:29 PM UTC Sunday was World Emoji Day, and Twitter showed the what the top-tweeted emoji in each country was. Based on emojis, people in the U.S., U.K. and Canada are feeling tired and weary. Spain is feeling strong. People in Italy, Japan, France and Saudi Arabia tweeted out heart emojis, while Twitter users in Colombia, Brazil and Argentina seemed to be feeling musical. Users in Germany and Australia tweeted thumbs up, while the most popular emoji in Mexico and India was folded hands. The top emoji in Turkey was a happy face, despite the [recent attempted coup](http://time.com/4409333/turkey-clamps-down-after-attempted-coup/?iid=sr-link1). For World Emoji Day, Google also added [over 300 new emoji](http://motto.time.com/4407938/emoji-gender-equality/?iid=sr-link2) to better represent women. World Emoji Day Shows Most Popular Emoji in Each Country ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4411223/world-emoji-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4411223/world-emoji-day/"},"headline":"What World Emoji Day Revealed About America","datePublished":"2016-07-18T19:29:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:30.420Z","description":"The top-tweeted emojis say something about the U.S.","url":"https://time.com/4411223/world-emoji-day/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Tech","Social Media","Internet","Companies","Web"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00ededcafec25a39/69889c5ee20a8759f8a91a0e/emoticon.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rosalie Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rosalie-chan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00ededcafec25a39/69889c5ee20a8759f8a91a0e/emoticon.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"emoticon","caption":"","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4411223/world-emoji-day/","name":"What World Emoji Day Revealed About America"}}]}] ```