# twitter/twemoji

Emoji for everyone. https://twemoji.twitter.com/

Repository: https://github.com/twitter/twemoji
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/twemoji
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: emoji, twemoji
Last push: 2026-07-07T21:41:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 64/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 91, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4318, "days_push": 57, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 17763, forks 1904 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:20.351867+00:00)

## What it is
Twemoji is a library from Twitter that provides standard Unicode emoji support across all platforms via a set of SVG/PNG assets and a JavaScript parser. It converts emoji characters in text or DOM nodes into consistent cross-platform images adhering to the Unicode 14.0 and Emoji 14.0 specs.

## Use cases
- render emoji consistently across all platforms and browsers
- replace emoji characters in DOM text with image tags
- parse emoji from strings into image URLs
- serve emoji assets from a CDN
- support the latest Unicode emoji spec in a web app

## When to choose
- you need uniform emoji appearance regardless of the user's OS or browser
- you want a lightweight drop-in script with CDN support
- you need safe DOM-based emoji parsing without innerHTML

## When to avoid
- you want custom or platform-native emoji rendering
- you need emoji beyond the Unicode RGI set
- you rely on the original MaxCDN, which is shut down

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, image-processing, parser
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: emoji, unicode, twemoji, cdn-assets, svg-png, localization, nodejs

## Member repositories
- twitter/twemoji (main) score 64

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:20.351867+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:02:27.949265+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/twitter/twemoji (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:20.351867+00:00, sha fdda34aef4c2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.