Twitter shows a 달토끼 (Moon Rabbit) emoji for Chuseok 2017

Little bit late on this, but if you hadn't noticed, Twitter is now displaying a cute emoticon of a rabbit silhouetted in front of a full...

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Twitter ups character limit to 280 but not for Korean

Interesting post from the official Twitter blog today . They crunched the numbers and scientifically came to the same conclusion anybody who...

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Mastodon in Korea

Real quick here, I was just surfing around a bit checking out Mastodon (open source decentralized Twitter alternative) . I wondered what th...

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Twitter shows 안중근's bloody hand emoji for Liberation Day 2017

During this week, any tweets containing certain hashtags related to Korean Liberation Day will trigger a special emoticon to display: the bl...

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Twitter offers a fire chicken emoji for Lunar New Year 2017

Twitter is showing a cute fire rooster (불닭) emoji when you use the hashtag  #2017어서오계 or variations of #LunarNewYear . You can see it from ...

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Twitter emergency alerts for Seoul

Twitter has a system for sending out emergency alerts from legitimate governmental organisations , and right now, Korea has one agency parti...

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Top 10 Twitter keywords in Korea 2016

Twitter has released their end of year stats for the most popular Twitter keywords in Korea for 2016 . No surprises here - Choi Soon-sil and...

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