Presenting reactions from friends

A system comprising:

• one or more processors configured to execute instructions stored in memory for performing operations comprising:
• retrieving a plurality of content items stored in association with a messaging application;
• identifying a list of friends of a user on the messaging application;
• obtaining reaction data for each friend in the list of friends, the reaction data identifying a set of content items, in the plurality of content items, to which respective ones of the friends in the list of friends reacted;
• determining, by the messaging application, that a first friend reacted to a first content item in the set of content items more recently than a second friend, the first friend being in the list of friends and associated with a first avatar and the second friend being in the list of friends and associated with a second avatar;
• determining that a tile representing the first content item is configured to include a maximum number of avatars representing friends of the user who reacted to the first content item, the maximum number of avatars being greater than one;
• in response to determining that the first friend reacted to the first content item more recently than the second friend, selecting the first avatar from the first and second avatars to be included among the maximum number of avatars representing friends of the user who reacted to the first content item;
• and
• presenting the selected first avatar in association with the tile representing the first content item.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising non-transitory computer-readable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, perform operations comprising:

• retrieving a plurality of content items stored in association with a messaging application;
• identifying a list of friends of a user on the messaging application;
• obtaining reaction data for each friend in the list of friends, the reaction data identifying a set of content items, in the plurality of content items, to which respective ones of the friends in the list of friends reacted;
• determining, by the messaging application, that a first friend reacted to a first content item in the set of content items more recently than a second friend, the first friend being in the list of friends and associated with a first avatar and the second friend being in the list of friends and associated with a second avatar;
• determining that a tile representing the first content item is configured to include a maximum number of avatars representing friends of the user who reacted to the first content item, the maximum number of avatars being greater than one;
• in response to determining that the first friend reacted to the first content item more recently than the second friend, selecting the first avatar from the first and second avatars to be included among the maximum number of avatars representing friends of the user who reacted to the first content item;
• and
• presenting the selected first avatar in association with the tile representing the first content item.