Twitter has launched a new emoji ahead of the General Election.
The new symbol, which shows a voting card being put into ballot box with a tri-colour, has been released with just under two weeks left until polling day on February 8.
The custom emoji aims to make it easy for people following the election to participate in the public conversation on social media.
It will run for the duration of the campaign. The emoji will appear when using the hashtag #GE2020.
Public Policy Manager for Europe, Ronan Costello said: "We’re delighted to launch our custom election emoji today ahead of the upcoming vote.
"Our aim, as always, is to encourage and promote the public conversation on Twitter, particularly during election cycles.
"Tools like this emoji help to bring the wider election conversation together for the community on our platform. The emoji is specific to the Irish electorate in design and, like many of the products we launch, is guided by how people are already using Twitter – the hashtags that activate it have been adopted by the community and are trending each day of the campaign.
"We want to help people to have healthy, open, and safe civic discussion on Twitter and make it easy for those on the service to engage with and follow the national conversation."
