Twitter, Vine, Periscope Debut Rio 2016 Features

Twitter, Vine and Periscope are ready for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games from Rio de Janeiro.

Twitter, Vine and Periscope are ready for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games from Rio de Janeiro.

Twitter senior director of Latin American media partnerships Carlos Henrique Moreira Jr. detailed the social network’s and apps’ Rio 2016 features in a blog post.

The Olympics have spawned emojis aplenty, as 207 team emojis can be triggered by users simply by including the three-letter country code for each team in a hashtag, including the Refugee Olympic Team (#ROT).

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There are also more than 50 other Olympics and sports emojis, which can be triggered by hashtags in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish, and Moreira added that the #Rio2016 and #Olympics hashtags also work in Japanese, Korean and Arabic.

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Twitter also created a new Rio 2016 section in its Moments tab, which is currently available in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the U.K.

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