Twitter creates new Pope Francis emoji to honour his Irish visit

In a sign of goodwill, social media giant, Twitter, have created a special emblem to honour Pope Francis’ visit to Ireland that users can add to their posts. The emotion-conveying-image or emoji for short consists of the smiling face of the pope against an Irish flag backdrop. It can be generated under a number of hashtags including #PopeinIreland and will be launched on Tuesday.

Pope Francis, an active social media user with more than 17.7 million followers, is no stranger to his image being used for emoji purposes. Twitter has previously unveiled similar emoticons to mark his papal visits to the United States and Latin America.