In one more instance of Twitter cribbing options from its direct rivals, the corporate introduced it will be attempting out emoji reactions for customers throughout Turkey over the approaching weeks with a attainable wider rollout if all goes nicely. Per the corporate, the brand new emoji roster is supposed to assist folks “quickly express themselves in conversations on Twitter,” in instances the place a easy smash of the like button gained’t lower it.

For a restricted time, the corporate defined, Turkish Tweeters will be capable of entry 4 extra reactions on high of the large pink coronary heart the corporate rolled out back in 2015. This features a considering emoji (for these tweets that make you suppose), a tragic emoji (for tweets that make you unhappy), a laughing/crying emoji (for tweets that make you snigger/cry), and a… clapping emoji (presumably for congratulatory tweets). Depending on how customers reply to this small take a look at, Twitter would possibly swap in numerous emojis, or roll out these capabilities to different nations sooner or later.

All issues thought-about, Twitter is comparatively late to the emoji sport—the corporate solely rolled out reactions for Twitter DM’s last year, months after Linkedin first gave its users the facility to react to fellow Linkedin-ers posts, and years after Facebook did the same. It’s additionally price noting that out of those three, Facebook is the one one with the heart to incorporate an “angry” response amongst their roster. Even although Twitter causes plenty of us to really feel like flinging our laptops out the window in pure unbridled anger, the faces that Twitter selected for its personal emoji slots really feel variety, considerate, and compassionate. Leaving a teary face on some bile-laden political meme doesn’t carry the identical chew as leaving a brilliant pink .

Twitter really did start plans to formally roll out a wider emoji selection—together with a side-eyed emoji, a celebration hat, and a brilliant learn “100,”—back in 2015, however nixed these checks not lengthy after. This slimmer emoji roster, Twitter says, got here from the corporate’s try to “find emoji that are universally recognizable and represent what people want to express about Tweets.”

To determine that out, Twitter carried out surveys, checked out generally used emojis throughout the location, and tried to determine the “top emotions” that Tweeters needed to precise on the location throughout completely different cultures. Among these feelings, per Twitter, have been “joy,” “interest,” “sadness,” “agreement,” and “curiosity,” which provides us the roster we’re seeing in Turkey proper now. “Frustration,” and “anger” have been apparently on the record too, however didn’t make the lower; ostensibly because of the firm’s makes an attempt to nudge users away from the Toxic Twitter convos we all know and detest. But relying on how this take a look at is acquired, who is aware of—perhaps we’ll see some middle-finger reactions on our feeds someday sooner or later.