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Reporter, TNWMic Wright is a journalist specialising in technology, music and popular culture. He lives in Dublin. He is on Twitter at @brokenbottleboy. Mic Wright is a journalist specialising in technology, music and popular culture. He lives in Dublin. He is on Twitter at @brokenbottleboy.
With ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ almost here and the Star Wars Celebration on right now, Twitter’s introduced three custom Star Wars emoji:
Celebrate @starwars #TheForceAwakens & #SWCA with one of three new #StarWarsEmojis on Twitter. Now introducing: #C3PO pic.twitter.com/o7Q7XJbYob
— Twitter (@Twitter) April 16, 2015
#SWCA is here can you feel it? Now introducing #StarWarsEmojis on @Twitter… #StormTrooper pic.twitter.com/JaoM1r4EfH
— Star Wars (@starwars) April 16, 2015
BOOM! #BB8 #StarWarsEmojis pic.twitter.com/8Svc3hWvXQ
— Bad Robot (@bad_robot) April 16, 2015
The third emoji is of BB-8, the new rolling droid who popped up in the Force Awakens trailer. You also get a little BB8 head if you add the #forceawakens hashtag to your tweet which suggest the little fella’s got a big role to play.
Using the #SWCA hashtag also gets you C3-PO.
Read next: Here’s how to use those new, diverse emoji in iOS 8.3 and OS X 10.10.3
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