Twitter Messed up Kwanzaa Hashtag

Posted on by Kamesha Williams, DI

It looks like Twitter dropped the ball for the celebration of Kwanzaa 2019.

What We Know:

  • Twitter users were eager to celebrate Kwanzaa closing off the end of 2019. Twitter is well known for creating hashtags for users to incorporate into their tweets during holidays and other important trending events. However, someone from the Twitter team completely sabotaged the hashtag. Although this was possibly an honest mistake, it didn’t go unnoticed.
  • The “Happy Kwanzaa” hashtag included a Kinara emoji, which is a candle holder the contains seven candles. All candles represent seven principles which include unity, collective work and responsibility, faith, creativity, purpose, cooperative economics and self-determination. There is one black candle placed in the middle, three red candles to the left and three green candles to the right. The candles are lit throughout seven days.
  • Unfortunately, for Twitter, someone didn’t do their research when drawing up the emoji to use within the hashtag. Twitter’s emoji only had five candles and the middle candle was blue. This didn’t sit well with many Twitter users who quickly pointed out the flaw and corrected the error.

  • One Twitter user wrote “the candles are WRONG. 1-there should be 7: that’s 3 red on one side, 3 green on the other side, and 1 black in the center. Why is there even a blue candle? Do y’all not have folks do research beforehand?”
  • Luckily, once Twitter realized the issue, they quickly corrected the emoji and also issued an apology to its Twitter users. “This was an error. We have now corrected and uploaded a new emoji that is a more accurate rendering of the Kinara. Just a note that it may take a few hours for the change to appear live on all devices globally.”

Mistakes happen often; However, we’re glad that Twitter could make this right for the celebration of Kwanzaa.

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