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WhatsApp's new universal emoji set looks very familiar

A few months ago, WhatsApp  announced  that a billion users send messages on it daily -- which is apparently the right time to  introduce its own line of emojis. If you're an iOS user, you might find them familiar, as the messenger's set looks very similar to Apple's tiny cartoon images. The new set of emojis is available in WhatsApp's beta version on Android that was released today, according to a post on Emojipedia. As Google's Gboard  gets  Bitmoji and Apple's iPhone X turns user facial  expressions into their own custom emojis, the Facebook-owned WhatsApp seems to be playing it slow releasing its own. Maybe the messenger app is just weaning its massive userbase away from the iOS versions, one subtly-changed set at a time?