Twitter Launches Special Emoji and Stickers Pack to Celebrate the #LunarNewYear Festivity

Press release

Manila, 27 January 2017 – #LunarNewYear is a time to spend and celebrate with your loved ones and this year, the #LNY festivities will start on Jan 28, 2017. During this festive season, people will turn to Twitter to wish friends, families and colleagues a #HappyLunarNewYear. To celebrate this global moment, Twitter is pleased to introduce the #LunarNewYear 2017 Year of the Rooster emoji and stickers pack to spread well wishes of happiness, fortune and prosperity around the world.

This special emoji will appear when you include any of the following hashtags in your Tweets:

English ●              #ChineseNewYear ●              #LunarNewYear ●              #HappyChineseNewYear ●              #HappyLunarNewYear ●              #CNY ●              #LNY ●              #GongXiFaCai ●              #KungHeiFatChoy

Simplified Chinese ●      ＃新春大吉 ●      ＃恭喜发财 ●      ＃新年快乐 ●      ＃鸡年 Traditional Chinese ●      #新春大吉 ●      #恭喜發財 ●      #新年快樂 ●      #雞年

As holiday conversations start happening on Twitter all around the world, people will also share photos and videos of the celebrations on Twitter. This year, we’ve also created our first-ever #LunarNewYear stickers pack for users to zest up their festive photos.

Join the festivities and start the #LunarNewYear conversation by Tweeting #HappyLunarNewYear, #HappyChineseNewYear wishes with Twitter emojis. From all of us at Twitter, to all of you who are celebrating, #GongXiFaCai and #HappyLunarNewYear!