iOS: 29 August 2014 (11 years ago) (2014-08-29) – 31 July 2015 (10 years ago) (2015-07-31)Android: 30 January 2015 (2015-01-30) – 31 July 2015 (10 years ago) (2015-07-31)
Emojli is a discontinued social media application for iOS and Android, created by YouTuber and web developerTom Scott, and YouTuber and broadcast engineer Matt Gray. While it was active, its principal feature was restricting usernames and messages to only contain emoji. When the app launched on 29 August 2014, 70,000 unique emoji-only usernames were reserved.[1][2][3]
History
Tom Scott and Matt Gray were inspired to create the app after seeing the success of Yo and the release of new emoji characters by the Unicode Consortium.[4][5] During a talk at Electromagnetic Field Festival, the developers commented that the app originated largely as a joke, but that by the time of launch 70,000 unique usernames had been reserved.[6] The app was launched on 29 August 2014.[2] After press coverage the developers began receiving offers for venture capital.[7]
Due to the cost and effort of maintaining the application, the developers closed the app on 30 July 2015.[7][8]
The pair remarked that they ran into problems as not all web browsers supported emoji, and mobile operating system support for them varied. All work on the app was done in their spare time and took a little over a month.[9]
The iOS version of the app was released on 29 August 2014.[10] The Android version was released on 30 January 2015.[11]
The app shut down on 30 July 2015 and will "not be resurrected".[7][8]
