Instagram and Twitter have shared some new emoji usage due to International Emoji Day. We all use emojis all the time and in connection with this, emoji usage rising every single year.

This year Instagram has focused on the most popular sports emojis in the app based on usage in different countries and regions. On the other hand, Twitter Business has shared the most popular reaction emojis on Twitter.

According to Instagram’s data, the most popular emoji is soccer ball. After that it seems “basketball”, “yogi”, “bike riding man”, “archery” and “hockey” emojis are used frequently. Also the most used emojis within tweets are the “crying”, “laughing while crying” and “concerned faces”.

Emojipedia has also awarded 2022’s World Emoji Awards. Within the results the most popular new emoji is “heart on fire”, the most anticipated emoji is “melting face” and the most used emoji (old or new) is the “loudly crying face” which is also very popular on Twitter as we said before.