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Twitter immortalise artists as emojis for BRIT Awards

Artists like Justin Bieber, Little Mix, Coldplay, The Weeknd and James Bay have been turned into emojis in honour of the BRIT Awards by Twitter UK.

The suite of exclusive emojis, which show tiny cartoon representations of some of the biggest BRIT Award-nominated artists, were unveiled by Twitter UK ahead of the ceremony, which takes place on February 24.

They are, however, not real emojis, as they only appear on Twitter, next to certain hashtags like #JustinBieberBRITS. They cannot be used in text messages.

Last year Twitter debuted its Star Wars emojis ahead of the Force Awakens premiere, and there is talk of the 'like' heart icon being replaced with many more reactive emojis.

Last year's Brit Awards drew record levels of social media engagement with almost 8 million tweets in total. 

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Watch Little Mix talk on yesterday's (February 9) Good Morning Britain about their upcoming Brit Awards performance, Coldplay perform at the 2012 show, and Justin Bieber win in 2011 below: 

 

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