With #ShareaCoke, Twitter Unleashes First Branded Custom Emoji

It was only a matter of time before brands joined the emoji fun on Twitter.

For the first time, Twitter has created a custom emoji for an advertising partner, Coca Cola. If you include #ShareaCoke in a tweet, you’ll spawn on image of two Coke bottles clinking. Coke hopes to set a record for the world’s largest cheers on Twitter:

It’s the cheers heard around the world! Tweet with #ShareaCoke to set a record for World’s Largest Twitter “Cheers!” pic.twitter.com/liGFMGofpJ

— Coca-Cola (@CocaCola) September 17, 2015

So will custom emojis eventually become an ad product? It sounds likely. Here’s Hoffman’s answer to that question in TechCrunch:

“One of our core values at Twitter is #ShipIt. We want to test things and Coca-Cola was the right partner to test with here. We have established trust over the years and we are excited about the learnings we will get from this initiative. The data we get back will help determine the future on what we do with this as a product.”