How to find tweets featuring popular emojis

Question

I am doing a project using R for sentiment analysis. I am trying to collect tweets that use some of the most popular emojis. How can I collect tweets by emoji?

#devtools::install_github("dill/emoGG")
library(emoGG)   # source of the "emoji_search" function
library(twitteR) # source of the "searchTwitter" and "twListToDF" functions

emoji_search("BALLOON")

emoji <- searchTwitter("BALLOON")
emoji
emojidf <- twListToDF(emoji)

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These look like they could be useful: http://opiateforthemass.es/articles/emoji-analysis/ and https://stackoverflow.com/a/53089349/6851825 and https://prismoji.com/2017/02/06/emoji-data-science-in-r-tutorial/ — Jon Spring, Jun 26 '19 at 03:04

Jon Spring · Answer 1 · 2019-06-26T03:27:08.367

After some googling and experimenting, I learned that emojis are encoded in tweets in a confusing way (at least to me).

One shortcut is to search for emojis using an emoji dictionary like Kate Lyons' here. Some more background about how she compiled it.

This gives us a more direct way to search for tweets with emojis. For instance, the dictionary shows we can look for "balloon" emoji if we look for this string:

<ed><a0><bc><ed><be><88>

I'm more familiar with rtweet, here's how a search for the balloon emoji looks:

[EDIT: I'm not sure this is working correctly. These all look to be non-English tweets and might not have a balloon emoji in them...] :-(

> rtweet::search_tweets("<ed><a0><bc><ed><be><88>")
# A tibble: 16 x 90
   user_id status_id created_at          screen_name text  source display_text_wi… reply_to_status… reply_to_user_id
   <chr>   <chr>     <dttm>              <chr>       <chr> <chr>             <dbl> <chr>            <chr>           
 1 111373… 11429734… 2019-06-24 01:51:30 SPR1NGD4Y_  " 엠… Twitt…              154 NA               NA              
 2 100224… 11428523… 2019-06-23 17:50:11 quark_kim   "탐라에… Twitt…              140 NA               NA              
 3 109648… 11428194… 2019-06-23 15:39:14 _4CC1D3N7_… "부장 … Twitt…              127 114281934863914… 109648624150199…
 4 113448… 11428090… 2019-06-23 14:58:01 MAX_commu   "자캐앤… Twitt…              140 NA               NA              
 5 819116… 11428062… 2019-06-23 14:46:46 jinimwoo    "자캐앤… Twitt…              140 NA               NA              
 6 103612… 11428013… 2019-06-23 14:27:27 00gY0       "자캐앤… Twitt…              140 NA               NA              
 7 107972… 11428003… 2019-06-23 14:23:32 YN_DGY      "탐라에… Twitt…              140 NA               NA              
 8 111199… 11427952… 2019-06-23 14:03:19 coffee_101… "탐라에… Twitt…              140 NA               NA              
 9 967054… 11427941… 2019-06-23 13:58:57 mphp0001    "탐라에… Twitt…              140 NA               NA              
10 928447… 11426751… 2019-06-23 06:06:06 yangE___    "탐라에… Twitt…              140 NA               NA              
11 836222… 11426745… 2019-06-23 06:03:32 sunseul_ma… "탐라에… Twitt…              140 NA               NA              
12 110802… 11426637… 2019-06-23 05:20:51 4th_month__ "탐라에… Twitt…              140 NA               NA              
13 113990… 11413476… 2019-06-19 14:10:47 Dream_Merr… "공지 … Twitt…               62 NA               NA              
14 777381… 11409418… 2019-06-18 11:18:24 mi_se2      "@Me… Twitt…              140 NA               NA              
15 330242… 11408761… 2019-06-18 06:57:35 lip_ran     "@Me… Twitt…              140 NA               NA              
16 113519… 11408687… 2019-06-18 06:27:56 barruwach   "@Me… Twitt…              140 NA               NA              
# … with 81 more variables: reply_to_screen_name <chr>, is_quote <lgl>, is_retweet <lgl>, favorite_count <int>,
#   retweet_count <int>, quote_count <int>, reply_count <int>, hashtags <list>, symbols <list>, urls_url <list>,
#   urls_t.co <list>, urls_expanded_url <list>, media_url <list>, media_t.co <list>, media_expanded_url <list>,
#   media_type <list>, ext_media_url <list>, ext_media_t.co <list>, ext_media_expanded_url <list>, ext_media_type <chr>,
#   mentions_user_id <list>, mentions_screen_name <list>, lang <chr>, quoted_status_id <chr>, quoted_text <chr>,
#   quoted_created_at <dttm>, quoted_source <chr>, quoted_favorite_count <int>, quoted_retweet_count <int>,
#   quoted_user_id <chr>, quoted_screen_name <chr>, quoted_name <chr>, quoted_followers_count <int>,
#   quoted_friends_count <int>, quoted_statuses_count <int>, quoted_location <chr>, quoted_description <chr>,
#   quoted_verified <lgl>, retweet_status_id <chr>, retweet_text <chr>, retweet_created_at <dttm>, retweet_source <chr>,
#   retweet_favorite_count <int>, retweet_retweet_count <int>, retweet_user_id <chr>, retweet_screen_name <chr>,
#   retweet_name <chr>, retweet_followers_count <int>, retweet_friends_count <int>, retweet_statuses_count <int>,
#   retweet_location <chr>, retweet_description <chr>, retweet_verified <lgl>, place_url <chr>, place_name <chr>,
#   place_full_name <chr>, place_type <chr>, country <chr>, country_code <chr>, geo_coords <list>, coords_coords <list>,
#   bbox_coords <list>, status_url <chr>, name <chr>, location <chr>, description <chr>, url <chr>, protected <lgl>,
#   followers_count <int>, friends_count <int>, listed_count <int>, statuses_count <int>, favourites_count <int>,
#   account_created_at <dttm>, verified <lgl>, profile_url <chr>, profile_expanded_url <chr>, account_lang <chr>,
#   profile_banner_url <chr>, profile_background_url <chr>, profile_image_url <chr>

How to find tweets featuring popular emojis

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