X Adds Custom Emojis For Pro-Trump/MAGA Hashtags

Mashable reports:

Over the weekend, Elon Musk made his support for Donald Trump official by publicly endorsing the former-president. Now, it appears that Musk’s social media platform X is also displaying support for Trump. This is, however, apparently paid promotion.

“This is a commercially available product,” an X representative told Mashable in an email. For example, when an X user posts the hashtag #MAGA, a small photo of Trump raising his fist after the shooting, automatically appears next to the hashtag in the post.

X takes things even further with another pro-Trump hashtag #Trump2024. When a user posts #Trump2024, an American flag icon appears beside the hashtag in the post. X has added a custom effect to the #Trump2024 search page: A display of American flags raining down on the page.

Read the full article. Per Mashable, this is the first time that Twitter/X has sold what they call “hashmojis” to a political candidate.

Elon Musk’s X goes full pro-Trump with custom hashtag emoji icons#MAGA now appears with a pic of Trump with his first in the air#Trump2024 appears with an American flag

if you click on the last one, American flags rain down on the search page

read: https://t.co/tSkXGFYSC8 pic.twitter.com/bSbzLEm935

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) July 18, 2024