Julie Bishop’s late night emoji blitz
JULIE Bishop is speaking a new language and her Twitter followers are loving it.
FOREIGN Minister Julie Bishop has started speaking a new language.
Returning from a busy few days as president of the United Nations Security Council, Ms Bishop took time out from her schedule on Sunday night to entertain more than 85,000 Twitter followers by replying to tweets using nothing but Emoji characters.
@KateDorrell 😃
— Julie Bishop (@JulieBishopMP) November 23, 2014@missmadchat @maddythecatlady @GrayConnolly ðŸ‘
— Julie Bishop (@JulieBishopMP) November 23, 2014“@bencubby: Gosh @JulieBishopMP sure does love her emojis†😎
— Julie Bishop (@JulieBishopMP) November 23, 2014“@AyaReina: From now on @JulieBishopMP will only reply to tweets in emojis and it will be up to us to work out what they mean.†💬
— Julie Bishop (@JulieBishopMP) November 23, 2014“@traceyb65: @AyaReina interpretive emojis! what next @JulieBishopMP interpretive dance?â€ðŸ’ƒ
— Julie Bishop (@JulieBishopMP) November 23, 2014
Starting with a couple of innocent smiley faces, Bishop’s iPhone activity escalated to telling complete stories using the tiny illustrated characters.
She illustrated a day-in-the-life using a picture of the sun, coffee and a cookie among other characters book ended by a couple of planes, and visually represented her time in New York with a statue of liberty, skyscrapers, and a speaking face to demonstrate her UN address.
“@lycanzayn: @JulieBishopMP send me an emoji story Julie pleaseâ€âœˆï¸ðŸŒâ˜€ï¸â›µï¸ðŸ‘’☕ï¸ðŸªðŸ™‹âœˆï¸
— Julie Bishop (@JulieBishopMP) November 23, 2014“@kimjongeuan: fully expecting @JulieBishopMP to deliver her next address to the united nations entirely in emojiâ€âœˆï¸ðŸ—½ðŸ¢âœï¸ðŸ“–😮
— Julie Bishop (@JulieBishopMP) November 23, 2014iPhone has been wrested off me - no more 😥 Time for 💤💤 Good 🌜Twitter
— Julie Bishop (@JulieBishopMP) November 23, 2014The characters continued well into the night until Bishop tweeted her iPhone had been “wrestled from her”, and included a couple of emoji characters to demonstrate.
While this is Bishop’s first public emoji binge, it became clear the foreign minister’s emoji game was strong last month when she used the “dancing girls” picture in replying to comments about her choice not to call herself a feminist.
@spicertracey @wendy_harmer I find it helpful to actually read what was said before commenting 👯
— Julie Bishop (@JulieBishopMP) November 11, 2014
Bishop’s emoji activity last night was a hit with Twitter users last night, and she’s been gaining popularity offline as well.
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