Years after Twitter changed the pistol emoji with a green-and-orange water gun, X has determined to vary it again to a daily handgun. An X worker introduced the change in a submit final week.
Emoji are common insofar as they share frequent designations throughout platforms (U+1F52B is the water pistol), that are determined by the Unicode Consortium. Nevertheless it’s as much as every platform proprietor to determine how they’re visually represented. That’s how we received the Nice Cheeseburger Emoji Debacle that was resolved in November 2017.
You’ll solely see the gun when you’re taking a look at X on the internet — as of this writing, it doesn’t seem to have up to date in cellular variations of the app, although that’s apparently on its manner in some unspecified time in the future.