Between the months of July and October 2015, ImproveNet, an online home improvement service, analyzed nearly 2.5 million tweets. The tweets all contained at least one emoji as well as a reference to one of 252 locations throughout the U.S.
ImproveNet used that data to create a breakdown of emoji usage in every state.
Behold the results:
The "Face with Tears of Joy" emoji is by far the most popular in the majority of states. It's followed closely by the red heart and 😍.
The state with the saddest emoji usage was Montana, and Washington D.C. is somehow the happiest and angriest?
The study found that South Dakota had the most tweets with emoji relating to love and sex. Tweets from New Jersey contained the most LGBT-related emoji usage.
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