If you could describe Beyonce in an emoji, what would it be? You no longer have to wonder, thanks to Pandora’s new custom emoji program, which it has set up together with Twitter for the streaming platform’s new Sounds Like You campaign. Now, you can tweet any emoji to Pandora Music’s Twitter account with the #Soundslike hashtag and get a music suggestion.
The way it works is you tweet to @pandoramusic with the hashtag #soundslike and any emoji, and an automated response from Pandora Music’s twitter account will appear on your timeline. The response will be a link to a station Pandora believes fits the emoji perfect.
A number of the suggestions are pretty straightforward interpretations of emojis. If you tweet the laughing in tears emoji to the Pandora Music twitter account with the #soundslike hashtag, you will be directed to a comedy station. If you tweet the sleeping emoji, you will be directed to a station full of chill tunes. There are 1,300 custom, automated responses set up by Twitter, but the company may also decide to send a custom tweet.
Then there are the suggestions Pandora’s Twitter account makes that show that Pandora’s automated responses find the emotion in the emoji. Tweet the middle finger emoji with the #soundslike hashtag and you will be directed to Big Sean’s station, but not before Pandora references his I Don’t F*ck With You hit single in the automated tweet. If you tweet the bee emoji with the #soundslike hashtag, you will get a station dedicated to Beyonce, who is commonly referred to as Queen B.
Pandora did not specify how long you will be able to tweet emojis to its Pandora Music account on Twitter and get automated responses. For all we know, we may all be speaking to each other in emojis in the future, and this Pandora could be the emoji communication training you did not know you needed.
Discord is trying to push more visibility on the internet for some of its biggest communities, and there's a good chance your messages could end up in a Google Search. The platform is preparing to make conversations from certain public servers searchable on the web, so there's a privacy setting you might want to check before the rollout begins.
According to Discord's official announcement, the changes will roll out in two stages. Starting November 16, qualifying servers will have public web pages featuring automated summaries of conversations. By mid-December, individual messages from eligible public channels could also appear word-for-word in Google and other search engines.
You just opened X and started typing your thoughts. Imagine the jump scare when a hand suddenly pops up on your screen, pointing at the promote button. It doesn’t say a word and simply points. For a growing number of X users, this isn’t a made-up scenario but something they have been seeing since yesterday, and very few of them are amused.
Most of us have learned to tune out the usual in-app upsells, whether it’s a glowing upgrade banner or a pop-up about a premium plan. A floating hand hovering over your draft is much harder to ignore, and that’s probably the whole point.
Scroll through any app for five minutes, and you’ll find someone maxxing something. Their skin, their sleep, their protein intake, even their Friday night on the couch. That little suffix has been everywhere this year, and now it has a trophy to show for it. In a recent announcement, Dictionary.com named maxxing its 2026 Word of the Year.
What are people actually doing when they’re maxxing?