Twitter Commemorates India's 69th Independence Day with India Flag
Twitter launched an Indian flag emoji, its first-ever feature for India’s Independence Day celebrations. The feature was active until the midnight of the 16th of August.
By using hashtag #India when composing a Tweet, the Indian tricolour will appear after those hashtags in the sent Tweet. The feature gives Twitter users a fun way to Tweet, share and celebrate the historic day with Indians and supporters of India worldwide.
PM Narendra Modi (@NarendraModi) officially launched the nation's first-ever Twitter emojis with this Tweet and wishing his fellow citizens.
https://twitter.com/TwitterIndia/status/632369589343510529
“Twitter has always been the go-to platform for people to engage in live, public conversations about their passions, cultural moments and events taking place in the real world. These emojis are a fun, colourful way to unite Indians during the Independence Day celebrations, which is also the perfect time to launch the first-ever Twitter emojis for India,” said Raheel Khursheed, Head-News, Government, Politics, Twitter India.
Here's a selection of first few Tweets from the initiative-
https://twitter.com/RonnieScrewvala/status/632221517976203264
https://twitter.com/NLinMumbai/status/632379811638325248
https://twitter.com/rahulkanwal/status/632381517109456897
https://twitter.com/ShekharGupta/status/632394288756748288
https://twitter.com/bhogleharsha/status/632203975308111872
https://twitter.com/supriya_sule/status/632387266787213313