Emoji Reactions in Twitter hasn't shipped an update since March 2022 — before Twitter even became X. Webemoji is the maintained, open-source way to get emoji reactions on X posts today.
The extension's Chrome Web Store card tells the story on its own. The last release is dated March 2022, and X has been through several UI overhauls and a rebrand since — a DOM-touching extension frozen that long is living on borrowed time. The card also discloses handling authentication information, and the code is closed source.
One more structural limit: its reactions are visible only to other users of the same extension, and the identity model behind them is not documented. The count you see is really "people with this exact plugin who happened to pass by".
Webemoji ships continuously, and its site adapters are small and bundled with the extension, so an X markup change becomes a focused update rather than a dead project. Emoji reactions on X posts and photos are supported now.
Reactions are aggregated globally and each one belongs to a verified account — one email, hashed irreversibly, one current reaction per post. The same person on three browsers counts once, not three times.
The same picker and the same counts work on Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Threads, YouTube, GitHub, GitLab, and Amazon, with more sites on the roadmap.
Webemoji never touches your X login — it has no reason to. The extension is GPL-3 on GitHub, so "what does it actually do on my page" is answerable by reading the code.
Remove the old extension, install Webemoji for Chrome, Firefox, or Edge, and confirm a one-time email code the first time you react. That's the entire migration.
Choose Webemoji if you want emoji reactions on X that still work next year, count verified people, and come with readable source.
Honestly, we couldn't construct a case for staying: the original extension is Chrome-only, closed source, and four years stale. If one exists, it isn't visible from the public listing.
The full table is in Webemoji vs Emoji Reactions in Twitter.
