Comment on Not my account, just posting this on behalf of UK people I used to follow when I did have a twitter account. Elon deleted the UK.

• jarfil@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, that is the phones default emoji picker, look at what mine does around the UN flag:

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  • buzziebee@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah it looks like the Union flag is next to Gabon. I think the country code is GB so it’s next to GA even though the name is United Kingdom. That might be what’s throwing people.

    The two US flag emojis are actually different Unicode emojis.

    The first is 🇺🇲 ‘U+1F1FA U+1F1F2’ and is for ‘U.S. Outlying Islands’.

    The second is 🇺🇸 ‘U+1F1FA U+1F1F8’ and is for ‘United States’.

    No malice, no bad code, no bugs or typos, this is just expected behaviour.

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  • x4740N@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I like that there is no united states flag there

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• FleetingTit@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is NOT a bug or a mistake. If the UK flag hasn’t been gone for long this is a deliberate action by someone.

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  • Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    [deleted]

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    • vanquesse@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      any sufficiently advanced incompetence (elon musk) is indistinguishable from malice

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• Cleridwen@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  twitter doesn’t have an emoji picker, and if it did, it would use the same iconography as the rest of the app, and, more importantly, the same emoji (except on iOS devices where they are forced to use apple’s emojis)

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• MrSqueezles@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I haven’t used Twitter or X, but based on the image, that’s the keyboard. See the blue GIF icon? Likely X’s picker. The dark gray one below it is probably the keyboard sitting. Could be Samsung because I see the same thing in Samsung Keyboard, SwiftKey, and Gboard.

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