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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Social media giant Twitter on Thursday launched an emoji for the Milk Tea Alliance, a global online pro-democracy movement that has united anti-Beijing campaigners in Hong Kong and Taiwan with protesters in Thailand, Myanmar and beyond.
FILE PHOTO: The Twitter App loads on an iPhone in this illustration photograph taken in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 22, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
Activists welcomed the announcement of the emoji - a white cup set against a background of three colours representing different shades of milk tea in Thailand, Hong Kong and Taiwan - for the first anniversary of the movement.
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On Thursday, the social media company Twitter announced that it had launched an emoji representing the Milk Tea Alliance, in a gesture of support to the online movement that brings together pro-democracy activists across East and Southeast Asia.
The emoji features a cut against a backdrop of three shades of brown, corresponding to the colors of milk tea in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and now automatically appears in any tweet featuring the hashtag in English, Thai, Korean, and several other Asian languages.
“To celebrate the first anniversary of the #MilkTeaAlliance we designed an emoji featuring 3 different types of milk tea colors from regions where the Alliance first formed online,” the social media company tweeted from its Twitter Public Policy account.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Social media giant Twitter on Thursday launched an emoji for the Milk Tea Alliance, a global online pro-democracy movement that has united anti-Beijing campaigners in Hong Kong and Taiwan with protesters in Thailand, Myanmar and beyond.
FILE PHOTO: The Twitter App loads on an iPhone in this illustration photograph taken in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 22, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
Activists welcomed the announcement of the emoji - a white cup set against a background of three colours representing different shades of milk tea in Thailand, Hong Kong and Taiwan - for the first anniversary of the movement.
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A mobile phone displays an internet meme of a growing online movement called Milk Tea Alliance to show solidarity between Thailand, Taiwan and Hong Kong, in this illustration taken on April 15, 2020. Reuters pic
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BANGKOK, April 8 ― Social media giant Twitter today launched an emoji for the Milk Tea Alliance, a global online pro-democracy movement that has united anti-Beijing campaigners in Hong Kong and Taiwan with protesters in Thailand, Myanmar and beyond.
Activists welcomed the announcement of the emoji ― a white cup set against a background of three colours representing different shades of milk tea in Thailand, Hong Kong and Taiwan ― for the first anniversary of the movement.