Emoji reactions could soon replace Twitter’s 'divisive' hearts

Company appears to be testing range of icons to illustrate emotional reactions where the simple star once sufficed

Twitter appears to be testing a new system of emoji-based reactions to tweets that could replace the marmite-like heart or "like" rolled out at the start of November.

The feature, which allows users to "react" to tweets by using a selection of emojis covering celebratory, anger, horror and various other emotions, mirrors that used by team-based chat system Slack.