The Twitter-born
‘Korea Wave Idol’ group, BTS, is honored with the first-ever Twitter emoji for
a K-Pop band. Twitter is providing this special emoji for the ARMYs of BTS, who
are communicating with fans all over the globe through Twitter.
K-pop is one of the hottest music
conversations on Twitter with millions of fans worldwide. In fact, four of the
top ten music keywords in the 2015 #YearOnTwitter were related to K-pop
boybands: #BigBang, #GOT7, #BTS, and #EXO. BTS (@BTS_twt) is one of the most active K-pop groups on Twitter, making it no
surprise that they were chosen to be the first K-pop act to be given a
featured emoji.
Embeddable Tweet: https://twitter.com/bts_bighit/status/730923497925410816
The BTS emoji is offered for one month starting 5pm, May 12th PST
until 5pm, June 10th PST on all Tweets using the official hashtag '#BTS'. The
emoji is developed for BTS fans in each country, so that they may send their
cheers for BTS Asia Tour which is scheduled for next month, and communicate
more actively.
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| The emoji features a bulletproof vest with the band's initials "BTS" on it. The band's Korean name translates to "Bulletproof Boy Scouts." |
Fans can easily use the emoji by typing the official hashtags of #BTS and #방탄소년단. After the trial period, the top 5 countries with most amount of BTS emoji uses will receive a special thank you video from the idol stars!
BTS made their
official Twitter account (@BTS_twt) at the end of
the year in 2012, which was before their formal debut, and have been
communicating actively with their fans ever since. As a result, they have built
a large fan base, and now they are a global K-POP group on Twitter. A selfie
taken at ‘2015 Melon Music Awards’ got more than 2.9 million views, and was
selected as Twitter’s 2015 ‘Golden Tweet’ in South Korea.
Global Competition Schedule:
5pm May 12th PST (9am May 13th KST)
Contest
starts for global fans.
5pm June 10th PST (9am June 11th KST)
Contest
ends, votes counted and top 5 countries identified.
5pm June 14th-16th PST (9am June
15th-17th KST)
BTS
will post special videos for each of the 5 winning countries.
5pm June 17th PST
(9am June 18th KST)
Thank you message from BTS for joining the global contest.
Currently, the most active countries are South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, the U.S, and Indonesia.
What are you waiting for ARMY, let's go use the cute BTS emoji!
