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Twitter releases special emojis for The Rolling Stones and Lady Gaga

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Mon, October 10, 2016 Published on Oct. 10, 2016 Published on 2016-10-10T12:52:21+07:00

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Twitter releases special emojis for The Rolling Stones and Lady Gaga This Wednesday, singer Lady Gaga attends Tony Bennett's 90th birthday celebration at the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Plaza in New York. (Invision/AP/Evan Agostini)

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he Rolling Stones and Lady Gaga are collaborating with Twitter to release new emojis as part of a campaign to promote their new albums. 

Fans of the English rock band can expect to use the emojis by simply adding special hashtags created by the microblogging site in their tweet, which include #TheRollingStones, #RollingStones, #BlueAndLonesome, #TheRollingStonesBlueAndLonesome, #RollingStonesBlueAndLonesome, #MickJagger, #KeithRichards, #RonnieWood, #CharlieWatts, #Stonesism, #StonesDesertTrip, #StonesVegas, #StonesOlé, #StonesInCuba, #HavanaMoon, #BlueAndLonesomeStones and #StonesBlueAndLonesome. This special feature is said to be available until Dec. 9, reported Antara news agency.

(Read also: Google, Disney reportedly back out of Twitter sale)

Meanwhile, prior to the launch of Lady Gaga's latest album Joanne on Oct. 27, Twitter also created special hashtags that can be use to activate the singer's emojis, namely #Gaga, #LadyGaga, #JOANNE, #JoannePreorder, #MillionReasons, #PerfectIllusions and #DiveBarTour. The album's launch date will also be the last day of the emojis' availability.

This campaign is said to be Twitter's first collaboration with Lady Gaga, whose account @LadyGaga has roughly 64 million followers and is the sixth most followed Twitter account in the world. (fmn/kes)

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