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February 6, 2017 02:56 pm -08

These are the most-tweeted emojis from anti-Trump protests

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These days, when emotions run high, so does emoji usage. 

Hamdan Azhar, founder of data journalism lab Prismoji, recently looked into the most frequently used emojis in tweets related to topics like the Women's March and President Donald Trump's "Muslim ban." He outlined his findings in a blog post for Emojipedia

SEE ALSO: Twitter accounts form digital army in resistance against Trump

Using Twitter APIs, Azhar analyzed about 60,000 tweets (excluding retweets and duplications) and identified the top five emojis for the following viral hashtags: #NoBanNoWall (grouped together with #NoMuslimBan), #NotMyPresident, #TheResistance and #WomensMarch.  Read more...

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